Most people don't go into science in a completely calm, cool search for raw data. They go into it because they find it exciting and want to solve interesting things or discover "cool" things. Scientists aren't robots. The US went to the moon because it was an exciting challenge, it inspired generations of kids to become scientists. We could discover lots of meaningless facts about logic, but most people want to do something exciting, and the people who discover meaningless facts about logic do it because they think it is interesting and exciting to an extent. Spending money on something that could be exciting is better than paying bean counters to discover meaningless logical facts. Especial when the bean counters don't really find anything, either expected or unexpected.