This leads researchers to use ingenious ways to present the same idea in different words and sometimes even “disguised” within the main project. Pittiful, but true, particularly if your ideas go against those of the elite that decides who gets money and for what. This reminds me of a project I once knew about it; the main objective was to study tuberculosis but since there was little money for that (after all it used to be a “poor country disease”), the proposal was written to conduct studies on AIDS/HIV for which there was a lot of money and included a strong component about understanding the biology of the parasite that causes tuberculosis.

The days of scientific research being conducted because 1) we need to learn and understand our own nature (which means we’re curious) and 2) we need to solve a problem that affects our societies, are gone. It would seem that science is not about being curious any more; doesn’t seem to be about proposing viable alternatives to solve an important problem (and improvement of health in 60+ percent of an entire country should be “important”); it seems to be about bias-oriented instead of evidence-based. If it goes along with the current dogmas then it’s fine… even if not true! Research nowadays seems to be about having something to market that can be mass-produced in the end.