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Created as counterpoints to large, well-established medical organizations whose work is subject to rigorous review and who assert no political agenda, the tiny think tanks with names often mimicking those of established medical authorities have sought to dispute the notion of a medical consensus on social issues such as gay rights, the right to die, abortion, and birth control.

Part of the reason I've been going on and on about getting caught up in words instead of meaning, definitions instead of indications, is that it's left us as a society vulnerable to manipulations by organizations like The Center for Equal Opportunity, The Center for the Study of Popular Culture and The American College of Pediatricians and the Center for Consumer Freedom. Announcements led by such names sound much more portentious than saying they represent the opinions of these thirty or so rich guys.

Beliefs drive research agenda of new think tanks
Study on gay adoption disputed by specialists
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff  |  July 31, 2005