&gt; On the other hand, you know what else corrupts research? Wondering where the funding for your soft money lab is going to come from. How you&#x27;re going to pay your grad students, technicians, etc.<p>What do you mean by &#x27;corrupts&#x27; here? It&#x27;s obvious not having funding will make research difficult (or impossible), is that all you mean by &#x27;corrupts&#x27;?<p>Or do you think that kind of funding insecurity effects outcomes, other than in the ways suggested by the OP in the first place?