[solarkraft]

> 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.

[hypertele-Xii]

> Force funders of a study to fund another attempting to find contrary results/pick it apart?

That's not a bad idea. The national counter-research unit. Any privately funded research is taxed at some percentage and all proceedings go to debunking that very research!