What if some clawbots out there are, right now, running a clinical trial by doing crazy craigslist ads to get people that have depression to sign up for a study

What if some clawbots out there are, right now, running a clinical trial by doing crazy craigslist ads to get people that have depression to sign up for a study and are tracking each person carefully and paying them to do x y and z right now. And in 6 months will publish a study on arxiv