If by “destroyed” you mean “billionaires will happily fund their contrarian research for years regardless of its peer reviews”…

No, I mean researchers and professors suddenly not getting any research grants anymore, suddenly getting fired from their tenured jobs, not being invited anymore to conferences, etc.

What billionaire funds “contrarian” research?

There are some funding sources for biologists trying to prove biblical creation.

Think also of all the money funding "climate change isn't real" or "climate change is not anthropomorphic" which can be traced back to big oil money.

You could build your whole career from the 50's on discrediting the link between smoking and cancer.

The Koch brothers were (and the current brother and estate of the other) are happy to write economists checks to prove laissez-faire capitalism under a libertarian government is the best system. Or that climate change isn't real.

If you're willing to generate evidence climate change isn't real, Exxon etc have some nice checks for you.

If you're willing to show how corn syrup is good for American than the Iowa farmer association has money for you.

> You could build your whole career from the 50's on discrediting the link between smoking and cancer.

> If you're willing to generate evidence climate change isn't real, Exxon etc have some nice checks for you.

Do you have any evidence of either of these being true today?