“Snakes are important,”
If you are paid to study “X” you have to write “X is important.”
Yesterday we had an article that said “Mountains are important.”
What else is important today?
There’s a lot of truth to your statement. This is why most studies are just junk. And many of these studies are politically oriented and paid for by the tax payer.
To me terms like “studies”, “polls”, “fact checking” are all buzzwords for masquerading lies as the truth.
I’m sort of hoping government funding for any study is severely restricted by DOGE.