Thinktanks

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A group of people who collectively perform research and develop reports and recommendations on topics relating to strategic planning or public policy, and which is usually funded by corporate, government, or special interests.

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Another thing is that there are a lot of "thinktanks" and organizations with great-sounding names "Center for Truth" - I made that up - but that kind of thing - but in reality they are funded by particular groups with very specific agendas. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2008)

Such clones are now the part of every governing body - variously termed as 'thinktanks', or ❋ Anoop Kohli (2009)

As bemused theatregoers watched the boisterous crowd, the videos depicted facts and figure showing Koch support for Tea Party groups, global warming sceptics and thinktanks seeking to strip away regulations on the environment, cut social security and oppose healthcare reform. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When thinktanks and focus groups ask what should be done about equality, they don't include us. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the numbers are beginning to head back up from that great slough of denial of the last two years, when the Kochs began channelling more money to climate doubting thinktanks and astro-turf groups. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Kochs have also given millions to thinktanks and groups that fight environmental legislation, especially to oppose the scientific consensus on global warming and try to lift regulations on air pollution and potentially dangerous chemicals. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But despite the consensus forming among the economic elite in thinktanks and newspaper op-ed pages around the world, there is fierce opposition in Germany to any plan which would appear to give the ECB a licence to print as much money as it pleases. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I want a policy document from any of the key denier thinktanks on how their future ideal science will be funded and structured, and who will own the output. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is true only of the activist community (e.g. NGOs and thinktanks), but not of the science community itself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many right-of-centre thinktanks have opposed its special treatment, arguing that Canada's budgetary restraint in the 1990s – considered a blueprint for deficit reduction – did not have any no-go areas. ❋ Larry Elliott (2010)

Yessir, those conservatives over at the Heartland Institute and the George Marshall Institute and the energy companies and right wing “thinktanks” like the Richard Mellon Scaithe fund, are really interested in the science relative to global warming. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The thinktanks that the Kochs have funded devise the game and the rules by which it is played; Americans for Prosperity coaches and motivates the team. ❋ George Monbiot (2010)

'When will there be riots? eager journalists ask thinktanks, sociologists and anyone else who monitors Britain's unravelling social fabric. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A more nuanced approach to immigration is reflected in conservative thinktanks such as the Cato Institute, which in January gave evidence to the Congressional subcommittee on immigration policy in which it said that the existing emphasis on legal enforcement against undocumented workers in factories and farms was having a damaging effect on the economy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"The pro­duc­tiv­ity of U.S. thinktanks and NGOs helps rule coun­tries which can­not rule themselves." ❋ Isabel Macdonald (2011)

Good background to understand some of the “studies” that come out of thinktanks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most of these bodies call themselves "free-market thinktanks", but their trick? as (Astro) Turf Wars points out? is to conflate crony capitalism with free enterprise, and free enterprise with personal liberty. ❋ George Monbiot (2010)

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