> people will put money behind the research that they believe is correct s/they believe is correct/the narrative of which benefits them. Unfortunately it's ha

> people will put money behind the research that they believe is correct s/they believe is correct/the narrative of which benefits them. Unfortunately it's hard to separate funding from the science. What can one do? Ban privately funded research? Force funders of a study to fund another attempting to find contrary results/pick it apart? While I agree that some source of funding doesn't automatically invalidate a study, but anecdotally (and probably empirically), studies surprisingly often agree with the people who fund them.