>>12805390>No more taxes on research ceWe already don't have taxes?
> and no more funnelling of money to get biased studies?Essentially impossible. Some Professors even funnel funds from other apolitical projects to get their students confirm their political bias in other fields.
What we need to do instead is to place more accountability on the researchers themselves. Make an list similar to retraction watch, one that black lists both retracted researchers and those who published dishonest, politicised content. Make it affect both career and public pensions (this latter is where the state can be involved, if scientists are placed on this database after extensive peer review) and hold researchers personally liable for any conclusions they make that was adopted into policy. At the same time we can end gradiose claims that second rate researchers make to get into top journals which ends up costing companies billions.
For example all those studies about smoking being completely harmless? Nothing ever happened to those people. They got their tobacco payoffs and retired. Today we have a similar situation of corruption from the "green" lobbey or how the LGBT+ lobbey has forced the research community to only support their narrative at the expense of childrens' mental health (and genitals).
We need to learn from history and think long term. A lot of people will still be corrupt and lie of course, but as more people get caught then future generation will be forced to take the ethical guidelines of research more seriously. Don't believe me? We are already going through a wonderful revolution with ML being used to scrape papers for duplicate images which has rightly destroyed the career of many cheaters chasing fast publications. On average more than one researcher is disgraced per day on retraction watch. These same people who probably cheated through undergrad finally get their comeuppance.
You can stretch the truth as thin as you want, but it never goes away.
