It just reinforces my feeling that it's easier for simple, bad ideas to get funding than complicated, good ones. Modulo the reporting, of course.

Your last sentence is probably the most insightful on the thread. We really have no idea what actually happened.

Indeed - I go forward on this assumption. The world is not consistent, logical or sane. It just exists. Move forward and exploit what you can to survive.

By world I mean human society. Physics/Maths is logical, but the people that inhabit it do not have such restrictive constraints.

Everybody lies. Incentives rule.