There was an episode of CSI:Miami (I know, corny, hyperbolic, whatever, it raises a really salient point) I recall a line where Caine makes the point that we do

There was an episode of CSI:Miami (I know, corny, hyperbolic, whatever, it raises a really salient point) I recall a line where Caine makes the point that we don't find evidence to support a narrative, we chase the evidence to find the truth. Too many of the studies today are funded to look for evidence to support a narrative instead of chasing the evidence to find the truth. The former is propaganda. The latter is science. When I say too many, I mean to say that there are enough that people are very very aware of this. This fact alone is a problem because it damages people's perception of what is going on in the scientific community. If people cannot trust scientists to deliver truth rather than deliver support for a narrative, we have a problem. Whether this perception is fair or not, it is so. If perception is that we cannot trust the scientists delivering the test results, nor the providence of the testing, then how can we trust the information we're being shown? People need to see integrity before they can trust anything else.