

Businesses will pay for studies that help businesses or had a profit incentive. When you hear the govt spent a large sum of money studying how ocelots react to opium or somelike that, people usually say that’s a waste of money, rather than finding out why.

I think what the other user is trying to tell you is that the delivery of your message is just as important as the message itself. Shame doesn’t work, it just makes them defensive and dig in. It takes conversations not shit slinging.