Listen to Richard Feynman's Caltech commencement speech from 1974 on cargo cult science. The guy was a genius and was not afraid to call the scientific community out on the dangerous direction it was headed. He saw it back then. He would often discuss this topic with other faculty, and when they told him their opinion he would say "but that is fraud."

The wave of resignations of major university presidents due to getting caught in falsified research papers is just getting started.

Science and the scientific method isn't bad. But science for money is every bit as bad and corrupt as other industries. The current grant system needs to be completely overhauled, as right now those who control the money control what science can be done. And truthfully, it's a lot cheaper to buy a scientist than it is to buy a politician.

I think it's time we adopted a double blind system so those who want to donate money for scientific research can't dictate, either directly or indirectly, the projects or researchers who receive the funds.