In the modern day world we are just too naive, almost dangerously naive if we think that science pursues evidence no matter where it leads.
It's often quite the opposite.
Research is owned and controlled by corporate money. Money requires a specific outcome to suit a corporate need thus contrary evidence is suppressed, buried, witch hunted out of peer review journals, to present a fake corporate science reality. This article details the excommunication of a dissident scientist. Otherwise known as a hatchet job