Good points, Lighter.

I happen to live near the Rhine Center and have worked with some people involved. What is missing among them, imho, is a healthy skepticism, but what person seeking a successful career and needing to make a living could or would pursue such research unless they already had a strong, undocumented belief or a trust fund to live on as they pursue their research? Problem is, their belief interferes with the design of their experiments and the objectivity with which they evaluate the experimental design and therefore the conclusions at which they arrive. They would serve themselves and the scientific community better if the researchers themselves more objective in their own evaluations of their experimental designs and the results. Shooting themselves in the foot.

Still, it is possible that eventually their flawed findings will be perused by some more objective researcher who will find a seed worth germinating and write a grant that will get funded. Even missteps sometimes eventually lead forward.