[Stuart]

Not really bad science, but one company I worked for bought an off-the-shelf system for a project. The system nominally did do what was required, but was designed for a much smaller operation. As such, it frequently crashed. My employer's response? To sue the company into bankruptcy, thus ensuring that the system they had spent tens of thousands of pounds on was not only useless for their needs, but also would not be upgraded or supported in the future, thus requiring them to spend the tens of thousands of pounds on a custom designed system that they should have bought anyway.