The quote you cite is interesting if not a little worrisome.
Maybe its just acting as a first-filter of things to (not) investigate at more expense later?
Otherwise you'd get a ton of studies promoting solutions as cause-and-effect when they're only coincidentally related:
- U.S. Spending on science correlates @99.8% with suicide by hanging
- Drownings correlates with Nic Cage films @66%
- Japanese passenger cars sold in US correlates with suicide by motor-vehicle @ 93.57%