[kirillzubovsky]

If it makes you feel any better, from what I heard from a knowledgeable source, this is worse in medical field. A lot of people have gotten really good at milking Gates Foundation and alike for grants worth tens of millions. They do the song and dance to pretend that research is being done, and results are just around the corner; ten years later they rinse and repeat.

Perhaps the best you can do is to be one of the good ones, and put making a difference over making a load of cash.