The US has some stupid studies also - ours are mostly about the "dung beetles" or "flying frogs being hurt by Building the Wall."    Actually, I believe there was a grant to study obese squirrels in NYC Central Park. Because there is not much green space in NYC, many, many people go to Central Park and feed the squirrels. That is way they are fat! How about the grant in Arkansas that required the Department of Child Services (DCS) to take (kidnap) a certain number of children each year from their parents in order for DCS to keep their grant. Now that is sick and the GOP state senator lost her life because she was fighting this atrocity.