Right? This where our tax money goes? Completely useless studies?
You lucked out on this bit of useless knowledge.
It was produced by the University College of London (England).
But, I am sure that with little effort you can find an even more useless example of scientific research that US tax payers funded.
As much as I enjoy reading this sort of thing I believe that taxpayer funded research should be restricted to the sort that DARPA performs and even that should be strictly scrutinized.
Government funding inevitably corrupts the science it funds.
Climate Change is a prime example of this fact.