And What is a Think Tank? A Think Tank is an organization that claims to serve as a center for research or analysis of important public issues. In reality, many think tanks are little more than public relations fronts, usually headquartered in state or national seats of government and generating self serving scholarship that serves the advocacy goals of their industry sponsors; in the words of Yellow Times.org (
http://www.yellowtimes.org/) columnist John Chuckman, "phony institutes where ideologue~propagandists pose as academics ... [into which] money gushes like blood from opened arteries to support meaningless advertising's suffocation of genuine debate".