It is absolutely not a form of bias in the experiments (it is of course technically a bias in which experiments are funded, but this does not affect the integri

It is absolutely not a form of bias in the experiments (it is of course technically a bias in which experiments are funded, but this does not affect the integrity of the results). Promising a breakthrough means I must either be lucky or force my results towards something that sounds good. That is bias. Having an experiment where there is promise of a breakthrough simply means my experiment could deliver something huge. I could fling Fabergé eggs at a wall and it'd be expensive but exceptionally unlikely to reveal anything big. Testing the warmth of fires lit with Rembrandts would be similarly unenlightening but expensive. Firing particles at each other at energies we've never tested before with newly designed detectors has a chance of a breakthrough (however you choose to define a breakthrough). Picking the latter over the former because it can give a breakthrough does not mean the experiments done with it are biased.