This is how academics work, they take money to study anything to keep their easy gravy train going.
They take money from people to "study" anything and come up with what the people who are funding them want as the outcome. These academics/professors in universities will do anything to get a buck of funding to keep their administrations happy and come up with fake results and lies to appease the people who fund them
Know this first hand from multiple professors at universities and they think it is disgusting