Once you realize that these kind of "studies" are just a highly refined form of graft, they start to make sense.
No one is trying to actually learn anything, this is just distributing money as a pay off. Give out some money for a "study,", the funded party shit out a crap paper they likely already had written, and then gives money to favored PACs and election campaigns, rinse, repeat.
Same thing with some NGOs that pretend to care about one cause or another. They do little more than talk about it since actually fixing anything (as long as their area of interest is indeed fixable and not a complete grift) would end their self-issued (or sometimes less so) mandate.
Once you realize that these kind of "studies" are just a highly refined form of graft, they start to make sense.
No one is trying to actually learn anything, this is just distributing money as a pay off. Give out some money for a "study,", the funded party shit out a crap paper they likely already had written, and then gives money to favored PACs and election campaigns, rinse, repeat.
Same thing with some NGOs that pretend to care about one cause or another. They do little more than talk about it since actually fixing anything (as long as their area of interest is indeed fixable and not a complete grift) would end their self-issued (or sometimes less so) mandate.