its not just fame, University 'Research' Centers are completely overrun with politics. I noticed after mapping diabetes, obesity, and excessive alcohol consumption that high levels of obesity almost perfectly overlapped with diabetes, except in areas with excessive alcohol consumption. I brought it up during an ideation session, but it was immediately dismissed as 'SES (socioeconomic status) must account for it, don't look into it further. when I lied and said these are higher levels obesity which is correlating with soda consumption, they wanted to write a paper / grant.

its leading to junk science, and large swaths of people are losing faith in what we are labeling as science.