The Give and Take
Since we live in an era of constant, immediate stimulus, information travels insanely fast. Scientists like Dr. Sam Semir Osmanagich got away with funding their absurd theories because not very many people were interested in the topics, and nobody was really educated enough to disprove them. Nowadays, debunking pseudoscience has actually helped build more organic funding for real scientific research because pseudoscience is usually pretty clickable. It's more likely that a person would read an article about an abstract topic and stick around to read the comments section than they would if they were reading an actual, annotated scientific journal. This has become an extremely important and overtly positive affect of a phenomenon that was quickly ruining the sanctity of scientific research...