It is ALWAYS about the money. Grants, published papers (which translates in to tenure, status or grants and funding) or just getting tagged/mentioned in the daily drive time liberal news radio morning spew. ALWAYS the money.
And undoubtedly most of it is junk science, just like global warming, and ends up misinforming the public, or worse, becoming law. There oughta be a law against making law with bad information!