I would guess that most of it is done this way. It is sort of like the “rock soup” method where the bum creates a nice meal by first asking for something to add to his rock soup.
When I was in grad school, there were huge numbers of material published. Once it got published, it had a life of it’s own. People would cite it and then cite the one who cited etc. Finally they would create an entire system or truth which was based on many phoney studies to start with.
The times we live in. Even “science” has been perverted to politics.
This “system of truth” has been perverted for decades. Our “intellectual elites” are mostly Marxist/atheists who have no ethics and all have agendas that have to be pushed. The Christians with ethics have been marginalized and pushed out long ago. I would guess that every “study” on homosexuality and children is a a fraud since 1980.
Everything that is “new” contradicts thousands of years of studies, including the studies of Freud, Piaget, and Erikson—people much brighter, more ethical, and much more thorough than “todays” “scientists”. It is known that the majority of high school students are cheaters for decades now (unheard of in the 50’s and 60’s when Christian ethics were dominant.)
I wouldn’t even trust vaccine companies since 1980 or before since they put known toxin that they KNEW were extremely toxic to kids in their vaccines—Never ever got a “flu” shot either....nope—never will...there is way too much corruption and money to be made and you never ever can be sure what is in those “shots” since parts are made in China and India and drug manufacturers would profit if they made you sicker. Many would like billions of people sterilized also.
It is best to be skeptical of everything....sad, but necessary in today’s world. But when you have had a Marxist/atheist paradigm shift—it always gets ugly and it it is like in Winston Smith’s world in 1984 now.