When I wrote [1] earlier this year on The Big Con about research institutes at universities who are actually outposts for industry interests, I thought I'd found quite a score when I discovered one at so distinguished a university as Tufts [2]. More distinguished universities than that wouldn't dare so prostitute themselves, right?
Now I've just learned [3] about the Harvard Electricity Policy Group - find a list of its eminently disinterested funders here [4] - and their "thirty-one reports supporting energy deregulation in California. HEPG research director William Hogan explicitly advised the state to adopt the 'Enron model.'"
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[3] http://www.amazon.com/Trap-Selling-Afloat-Winner-Take-All-America/dp/0805080651/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-6021157-3053416?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182983104&sr=8-2
[4] http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hepg/participants.html