This is historically doubtful. The most famous anti-heliocentric researcher, Galileo, was a professor at the University of Padua. This university relied on the

This is historically doubtful. The most famous anti-heliocentric researcher, Galileo, was a professor at the University of Padua. This university relied on the Church at least as much as a modern US university relies on the NSF. Furthermore the Church had vastly more power over publication than any institution in any free country today. Yet, the truth still shone through. If Renaissance Italian research funding had been greater, we would have gotten more empty treatises on heliocentrism, but also more chances at a Galileo.