[Mase]

Keeping current on the pertinent research was a vital part of my job for a long time, and I can assure you that a great deal of research today is done to sell books, generate lecture fees, pursue an agenda, or make the grant money flow, rather than finding the truth. If you're a professor, grant money can make the difference between a struggling and living large. The latter lifestyle motivates good people to do things they shouldn't do, and wouldn't do otherwise. Your tax dollars at work.

Anyone not realizing that research and the peer review process has been seriously corrupted, isn't paying attention.

[Rockingham]

Evidence commonly varies in quality, and there are few instances in which even expert publications are utterly devoid of self interest, bias, and error. Of course, these defects apply not just to evidence on the side one dislikes, but also to the side that one prefers. Even if, as Samuel Johnson famously pointed out, no one but a blockhead writes for any reason except money, in the end, there is no substitute for studying the evidence, good and bad, favorable and unfavorable.