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  39. ​ @Boss_Feed  Most research in academia is supported through government funding agencies. We write grant applications describing what it is we wish to do (aim), the basis for the research (reasoning, hypotheses), how we intend to go about it (methodology) and what the expected results might be. The grants are submitted to the appropriate agencies (they are usually multiple dedicated to particular areas) where the applications are peer-reviewed (committees made up of fellow academics). Those considered most promising receive a grant. If & when you receive a grant then you are legally obliged to spend it on the project specified in the application. There is no obligation to arrive at particular results or draw particular conclusions; we don't receive instructions prior to writing a grant that tell us what we should be doing. We usually run into obstacles; if we knew what was going to happen it wouldn't be research. Even with the most promising projects dead ends will be encountered. While the awarding body will want updates so they know how it's going, the results are continually used to write research papers that are published in research journals. They lay out aim, methodology, results & conclusion. They too are peer-reviewed (by academics) and can be rejected. Over time, the multiple inputs from different pieces of research draw an increasingly complete picture of a subject. What makes it into school or university textbooks (usually written by academics) is the culmination of decades of work. They're not instructions or indoctrinations from on high; it's the long term result of the work we've been doing.
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