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kerrlakeRoo wrote:
If a given person employed at a facility, college or whatever and is offered a grant to research something, there is always something that they are specifically to prove, or to justify. When the outcome is preordained by the requirements of the grants, the results will always give what the entity offering the funding is looking for, otherwise they may not offer you money again.

That's not science. True knowledge is by rigorous science, meaning peer review and replication, not by being paid to prove something you want proven. But yes, scientists have to earn a living too. I just don't think your assertions are true in the world of "real" science. I think there's correlation, but not causation.

However, throughout history there have been those who, if paid enough, will testify to just about anything. Witness tobacco executives saying "I believe nicotine is not addictive" and various "scientists" who declared leaded gasoline was no big deal.