Still, she sees projects like In-Q-Tel's as confirmation that virtual worlds have value for serious organizations.

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The IPCC, in other words, learned the hard way the value of letting mavericks and gadflies challenge confirmation bias.

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"It's because Tony Blair's philosophy and politics and rhetoric was coming across so clearly, that Labour did not respect and value pensioners, and the 75p from wretched Gordon Brown was just a confirmation of what pensioners were already picking up, in the rhetoric that Labour was choosing to employ, " said Mr Willetts.

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