Every PhD candidate in the academic world already knows this. There are virtually no truths, only fund-able research.
“There are virtually no truths, only fund-able research.”
I was working for a PhD in college when he suddenly realized that he’d spent all his research funds on a particular project and had not actually done any research. By the due date, later that week, he had reams of data and exactly the expected result. (It’s a miracle.)