Lol, Thanks for the post. :)
Drives me nuts when so few can see through “why” they go certain directions in science. Is there more money in researching this irrational thing instead of that rational thing? Well then this is “why” without a doubt. The more impractical it is the more taxpayer money can be milked trying to prove it practical, if even ever. Some should never even be started at all based on realty and true practicality. Especially in the environmental science industry.
It’s kinda like the guys who won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for ‘discovering’ that ulcers were the result of bacteria in the stomach and not stress, alcoholism or nerves.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/press-release/
When it could have been ‘discovered’ a hundred years earlier, with some basic tools............