“In the interest of transparency and to avoid potential and actual conflicts of interest, funding disclosures are standard operating procedure in the scientific research community, particularly when the research is expected to undergo peer review.”
Peer review is supposed to establish the research as valid, not the political bias of the scientists.
The funding disclosure is also for the benefit of the peer reviewers, who may have conflicts or potential conflicts of interest that could potentially taint their review. In my opinion, funding disclosures are essential to the scientific process, as evidenced by the “science” behind the climate change hoax, where many of the studies that are parroted by the MSM were funded by organizations tied to Soros, Gore, and and other climate change nuts.