most scientific papers are wrong?

It isn't just the universities decision, it is the grant funding bodies criteria which determine who gets the money and without money there isn't going to be any research going on. If universities declined to bring in grant money then their only recourse would be to charge astronomically high tuition fees or to have everything done on a basis of corporate sponsorship, in which case we might never found out the results of any research unless it tells us what to buy or what the latest wonder drug is going to be.I think you'd be hard put measuring the success of a research department with no money for new equipment or consumables.TTFN,WK

Isn't that the entire point of the initial stages of peer review, to question and challenge as yet unpublished work? This is also why many people present the work they are currently engaged in at conferences ,either as talks or as posters, to invite questions and criticism ideally of the constructive kind.TTFN,WK