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The best research money can buy.

Post by Little waster » Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:17 am

A return to the perennial topic of "who actually funds your think-tank/research?".

Here's a breakdown on transparency of funding for different think-tanks from A (Completely Open) to D (Highly Opaque) with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in its own "Actively Deceptive" category.*

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Perhaps the great minds of Scrutable can identify any common factors. 8-)

Anyway the Guardian have trawled through thousands of pages of US tax filings to try and shed a little bit more light on this, with predictable results.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -uk-groups

Oh Policy Exchange you dishonest bunch of dipsticks and shills. TBF given the calibre of the output of many of the think-tanks-for-hire you'd want a refund. What are the chances the BBC continues to invite their representatives onto their shows as supposedly "neutral" and "impartial" commentators on new policy suggestions?


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Re: The best research money can buy.

Post by jimbob » Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:04 am

There looks to be a mistake in the first infographic. Contradicted by the second, that makes more sense.

Civitas is given a "C" rating in the first and sn "E" in the second.

As well as ministerial influence, they often get fairly long slots on the Today programme.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation

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Re: The best research money can buy.

Post by basementer » Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:48 pm

jimbob wrote:
Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:04 am
There looks to be a mistake in the first infographic. Contradicted by the second, that makes more sense.

Civitas is given a "C" rating in the first and "E" in the second...
And Policy Network are "B" in the first, 1* "highly opaque" in the second.
I reckon the scrutable thing to do here is ask where these came from.
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