Lots of research requires funding. And of course the funders will have a reason to part with their money. People aren’t going to pay for things they have no rea

Lots of research requires funding. And of course the funders will have a reason to part with their money. People aren’t going to pay for things they have no reason to pay for. Simply deciding whether a piece of research is valid after only looking at who funded it is a major fallacy that betrays the basis of the scientific method itself. Science isn’t a matter of trust, it’s a matter of verifiable results. The results of a scientific research paper must be repeatable by a third party following the same methods. Go see the merits of the research: it’s methodology, its results. If everyone simply looked at a list of funders and went “welp... this research is biased and invalid”, then we would have hardly any “valid” research.