Funding is always going to be preferentially available for the things that people are interested in. That's true in all aspects of life, not just in science. If

Funding is always going to be preferentially available for the things that people are interested in. That's true in all aspects of life, not just in science. If you want to challenge the Standard Model in Physics, of course you're going to have to work harder to get funding. That's because the betting money is of the opinion it's probably at least mostly correct. That rational allocation of funds bias doesn't prevent you from doing research or from getting it published, it just says that yes, if you want to challenge the prevailing wisdom you're going to have to work pretty hard to pull it off and convince people the standard model of the field is wrong.