The title reads like an Onion article

Not quite the level of the 2012 IgNobel litterature price, which went to "The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports."

Do you have a link to this report?

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-12-480r

And, like most IgNobel winners, it's an important research about important problems.

I do not see anywhere in that report evidence of the deep semantic recursion you mentioned

That is absolutely impenetrable prose. An LLM couldn't make it any more obfuscated.

I'm shocked I had to scroll so far to find someone who had this same thought!