I can’t corroborate it except with another anecdote, a medical researcher told me the same thing in passing. She had worked in academia and in industry, and sai

I can’t corroborate it except with another anecdote, a medical researcher told me the same thing in passing. She had worked in academia and in industry, and said that industry doesn’t remotely trust any academic work, and that this had been valid in her experience as well. For example that at the university lab that she joined there was a measurement device which had been regularly used, but which no-one understood how to calibrate properly. I suspect as you say it’s partly down to a lack of expertise, being thrown in at the deep end without much guidance on how to get good measurements, both practically and in terms of avoiding statistical traps like cherry-picking, allied to the pressure to find some exciting results, and journals’ lack of interest in negative results.