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It would certainly be ridiculous to deny that it's ultra-competitive among researchers or that issues in regards to publishing need addressing but at the level of pure science (basic research, as opposed to applied and development) this largely isn't the case. Not only is it apolitical but there's no real profit motive attached for the simple fact that scientific theories and discoveries made in nature cannot be patented. There's no focus on products and processes - although it certainly lays the fundamental groundwork for them - it's knowledge for the sake of knowing.
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. Funding bias is absolutely a real phenomena.