This reminds me of how there was a boom in half-baked studies around COVID, e.g. modelling this or that aspect of the pandemic, or around mask wearing. I imagi

This reminds me of how there was a boom in half-baked studies around COVID, e.g. modelling this or that aspect of the pandemic, or around mask wearing. I imagine that most of these will simply have had little to no impact, and will only serve to bolster the publication list of those who wrote them.