> So where are researchers who want to study topics you don't personally like supposed to get funding, in your view?

I'm sorry, was I not clear enough? Bad research should not get funding. Or at least, it shouldn't get it for decades and decades, while producing no results [1].

One's desire to do research into irrelevant questions does not entitle you to support in the name of "science".

[1] I'm OK with some crap science getting funded if every renewal is random!

From anywhere except from the tax payer. Lord knows there are academic institutions sitting on a lot of cash.