It all comes down to funding and therefore it all comes back to the government and foundations which fund so much basic research. You need to show that your experiment supported your thesis not that your experiment was structured and carried out properly - in order to catch the attention of the funders.
In real science - disproving a hypothesis is just as beneficial to our knowledge as is proving it. But government and foundation funders are interested mostly in headlines and often ideology.
It all comes down to funding and therefore it all comes back to the government and foundations which fund so much basic research. You need to show that your experiment supported your thesis not that your experiment was structured and carried out properly - in order to catch the attention of the funders.
In real science - disproving a hypothesis is just as beneficial to our knowledge as is proving it. But government and foundation funders are interested mostly in headlines and often ideology.
See,
https://open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielkejr/p/covidgate?r=dq3ii&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Just so: a case of bureaucratic butt covering by way of scientific fraud.