Mercatus Center, as academic fraud that serves lobbying interests of Koch Industries

But Thomas McGarity, a law professor at the University of Texas who specialized in environmental issues, argued that "Koch has been constantly in trouble with the EPA, and Mercatus has constantly hammered on the agency." One environmental lawyer who clashed repeatedly with the Mercatus Center dismissed it as a lobbying shop dressed up as a nonprofit, calling it "a means of laundering economic aims." The lawyer explained the strategy: "You take corporate money and give it to a neutral-sounding think tank," which "hires people with pedigrees and academic degrees who put out credible-seeming studies. But they all coincide perfectly with the economic interests of their funders." (187)