Yes, they are excellent "spin doctors."There seems to be a lot of "spin" in the universe
... so give us a lot more money."we didn't find what we expected so we know we're on the right track"
I noticed that they are really pushing the idea of "gravitational waves" moving at the speed of light through a medium. Of course, they deny aether, then invent dark matter as a substitute, which experiments can't find, either--unless they had more money to look deeper.
If the people were to pull the funding of ALL these research projects, would the world be any different? This reminds me of that old, government program to solve the employment problem, where they would pay one group of people to dig holes, and another group to come along and fill them in.