Scientists have been looking for funding since before the scientific method existed. Leonardo Da Vinci had patrons

It's inherent to grants. If you want scientists to choose their topics you have to fund them unconditionally.

When your future began to depend on what you were published in, and those publishers had to compete with corporate interests. Capitalism poisons nearly everything it touches, but especially academia.

This system is one of the primary reasons I decided not to go into academia

Not hard to figure out lol.

$$$

"what happened to you, academia? You used to be about the science. Now you're just about the money."

For the same reason the person tweeted rather than googled this thought.

Money, money , money …

It’s a rich man’s world.

When they ran out of money doing it that way

Alternative idea: perform and publish misleading research to push a corporate driven narrative for money.

Isn’t that the same thing? Why work as a scientist when you don’t have interesting research to do? And if you do, then getting funding should be possible. I know that it can get quite tricky and exhausting but what exactly do those people expect? The whole job of scientists is to come up with worthwhile questions and to find answers.

People will always optimize their methods to maximize resource gain. It's a fact of life since the dawn of life. Even animals do this.

I've seen cancer researchers lie to people with dead loved ones to get funding. I've seen physicists do bogus experiments that yield nothing with a nice dark matter story just to get funding... it's become marketing at this stage.

This is my problem with climate change research. Those who attempt to oppose the "narrative" never get funding. How are we supposed to claim science is unbiased when bias is what's making the results come out?