> Otherwise corporations choose what gets funded, and they only fund narratives and experiments they think will be profitable for them.

Well, that's the incentive mechanism that keeps the accountability for the results whether we like it or not. The government doesn't immediately go out of business if the research they fund is full of fraud or goes nowhere useful. Moral outrage at all the fraud in research associated with these Universities and government funded studies isn't a powerful enough incentive mechanism to correct that fraud, apparently.