[Modernman]

It is a mockery to call anything "pure" until it is tried and tested.

Pure scientific research deals with the type of research that does not lead to direct real-world applications. There is little or no money that the private sector could make from research on, for example, sub-atomic particles. However, pure research lays down the basis for applied research, which does lead to profitable real-world effects.

Studying evolution, by itself, will not likely lead to profits. However, the applied research that springs from our knowledge of evolution (such as advances in biotechnology) is more than worth the investment.

[Just mythoughts]

Are you really going to claim that the majority of scientist approach their research without the parameters of evolution?

Evolution is an ideology and their ideology taints their research. Evolution has not been proving, like the word marriage it gets a reshape every so often. Tax payers fund this ideology.

What is missing that supposed "link" is pure honesty. When there is not evidence, draw pictures, take one bone and create a myth, and by all means give it credibility with holy "peer review". Then have the nerve to call other hucksters.