The purpose of "think
tanks" is precisely to generate the steady stream of convenient
facts, persuasive phrases, and finely-tuned ideologies that assemble
coalitions around the agendas of their paying supporters.
-- Philip E. Agre. "Information and Institutional Change:
The Case of Digital Libraries,"
in Ann P. Bishop, Barbara P. Buttenfield, and Nancy Van
House, eds, Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and
Evaluation, MIT Press, 1999.