[Jgrubb]

You're right about resources lending an unfair advantage of course - when haven't they? - but the real danger to me isn't that those with greater access to resources will have the capability to produce better analyses, it's that they'll have the capability to better push their agenda.

I remember watching Colin Powell on TV in 2003 explaining to congress, "You see these trucks here? These are clearly carrying weapons of mass destruction. Only bad trucks would leave tire marks and move around like this." Clearly this was a bad read, and the whole of humanity has suffered for this agenda being sold to us as an irrefutable, data-backed truth.