SammyQ
Established Member
I was 'raised' at university by some eminent ecologists and physiologists. This latest sentence resonates strongly with their modus operandi. I witnessed a "Vivo" for a PhD, and had to justify my own work throughout my time with reference to statistics with confidence limits etc throughout; believe me, there is nowhere to hide when under scrutiny.They carry out serious, impartial and unbiased research which is reviewed by international groups of their peers.
If their research was skewed to agree with a consensus just to get funding, they would be laughed at.
To say there are expected outcomes attached to monies awarded to research facilities is just bunkum. What you may be conflating here is where a firm pays for research, then 'buries' it. The tobacco industry did it, the pesticide industry did it and the oil industry is, today, grudgingly admitting it's known for decades about the plastics problem.