Not going to try to pick apart your analogy or think of a better one. But the study was real. They did “real” science (poorly). They didn’t lot about results or

Not going to try to pick apart your analogy or think of a better one. But the study was real. They did “real” science (poorly). They didn’t lot about results or invent data. What they did likely happens everyday by people who don’t even realize, or worse by people who do fabricate results. What they showed was how easily terrible science gets published to the masses as if it were reliable.