A drive for incrementing their number of citations wasn't what I was getting at.

Then it's not clear to me what you're getting at.

1. Their credentials provide some legitimacy to this endeavor.

2. They get to do some interesting work.

Those are the positives for them I see.

Rather than abstaining they work on it and lend their names. I don't know whether they support what Apple is doing with the protocol or if they just like figuring out the possibilities. I don't think either is good in this case because I don't like the very first application of this PSI System. Maybe I'm being short sighted and jumping to conclusions all at once. I still don't like it.