Yet people still do studies on alternative "medicines" and other stupidity like "wind turbine sickness." That is literally doing something dumb that everyone will hear about.
Doing studies on those things you think are stupid is the right thing to do. Counter-intuitive stuff is found all the time in science. Occasionally those alternative medicines get tested and turn out to work, in which case they become regular medicine.
By declaring something as "too dumb to study", you're a priori declaring the result, which is bad science.
By declaring something as "too dumb to study", you're a priori declaring the result, which is bad science.