Scientific research is largely dependent on outside funding.
If you stop getting funding, you don’t get to research anymore.

What kind of effect does this have on the integrity of the results of scientific research outfits?
No matter who you are or what field you are in, you’re not always going to be making new or important discoveries.
So, when funding depends on producing results and you can’t produce results without funding, couldn’t a problem arise where people feel pressured to come back with fudged or outright fabricated data to keep their outfit going?
It’s not like there is always a way for the people who fund these things to double check the work and make sure it’s valid.
Just a thought I had