Arguably there is huge demand for this sort of research which is a proximate cause of it being concocted fraudulently. Lots of people working in policy don't h

Arguably there is huge demand for this sort of research which is a proximate cause of it being concocted fraudulently. Lots of people working in policy don't have any real ethical or political engagement with the problems they are supposed to be solving. They lack vision and purpose. They choose to believe that irrelevant and trivial interventions can make huge inroads into difficult social problems, because they are like the man looking for his wallet under the lamppost. If making progress on really difficult problems requires deep thought, courageous leadership and persistent hard work, then they aren't going to be able to solve them anyway.