Because you're reading explicitly anti-academic articles in the Daily Caller and laughing at titles and abstracts out of context.

Why would anyone care about intersectional feminist theory?
Why would anyone care about the sociology of religion?
Why are people putting shrimps on treadmills?
Why are taxpayers funding 'research' into global warming and alternative energy?
These eggheads think they know something about the economics of health care and the minimum wage, but they don't know shit! We need more job creators.

That's the agenda you're trying to spread here, whether you're aware of it or not.