I've worked in both the public and private sector doing research and I can attest to the fact that the scientific community is filled with people who only sometimes apply the scientific method. In academia, as you say, the modus operandi is to backfill to make your grant proposal match the latest trend in government funded research. In the private sector it's all but impossible to get people to manage their businesses even quasi-scientifically. Instead politics reigns supreme as it does anywhere else. Looking at the debating on online public forums, I'm sad to say that it's not much worse among people who have zero training in the field. If you're actually interested in science you just have to think for yourself. There are very few trustworthy sources. Do the scientific thing and be skeptical of everyone's motives.
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I worked in both as well. Any intellectual honest person would accept this fact. Instead, we get the insiders believing in "science" whatever that means . empty word with a white coat.