Ayn Rand seems more and more brilliant every day. Decades ago she wrote that “free scientific inquiry” is a redundancy and “governmental scientific inquiry” is a contradiction in terms. Why should anyone be surprised that “scientific” studies tend to produce the finding which was sought after when the funding was approved. That is to be expected and it should also be expected that in many or even most cases the “scientists” reaching the expected conclusions will do everything possible to convince everyone involved INCLUDING THEMSELVES that they have done honest work rather than merely reaching a preordained conclusion.
“scientific” studies tend to produce the finding which was sought after when the funding was approved
“Tend to” is putting it mildly. It’s almost 100% because of the natural tendency of the funding entity to drop funding when the study’s initial findings are going against them.