Writing gibberish is a coveted skill in politics because an unreadable proposal is harder to criticize, and any logical fallacy can be supported by semanticism to give the illusion of substance! In identity politics, writing fluff is necessary to signal cultural affiliation, which adds emotional weight to the gibberish in an essay. If a grad student needs to cite 20 puff pieces to get approved by their thesis supervisor, then they're going to need the manifold hypothesis either way! In the social sciences, structuring data to fit or obfuscate a sketchy narrative will generally be more lucrative than writing an unbiased analysis.