Yes, research dollars is a good retort.
Is it your thought then, that nothing out of the ordinary happened in Pons and Flieshman’s research, and that all government funded research should be shut down?
Isn’t a lot of this research being funded on university campuses and the like?
No, funding of good research should not be shut down, but those making funding decisions should take a careful look at the quality of the proposals they review. I don’t believe much funding went to F&P work, but very large sums have gone to ‘climatologists’ with doubtful ethics and a hatred of openness, a strong indicator of bad science.