VA hospitals generally support university research, not military research. The military has their own hospitals and more importantly their own field casualty ca

VA hospitals generally support university research, not military research. The military has their own hospitals and more importantly their own field casualty care systems. Source: I am a physician researcher at a military medical center. As far as trusting research, you can probably find a good solid reason to distrust any research. Whatever your politics you can probably find something you disagree with about any given funding agency. But in that case we should just revert to our Neanderthal selves and solve all of our problems with clubs. What you should be doing is thinking critically about the introduction and method section And comparing them to the results. If you're in the field, you should know the authors or at least something about them and their methods.