If you think funding from industry makes academics' results more robust, you might want to look into tobacco-industry-funded research on cancer, oil-industry-funded research on global warming, and ridesharing-industry-funded research on drivers' working conditions.
No one thinks "research on drivers' working conditions" is science. Manifestly self-interested nonsense like that is relatively easily ignored. And if that's the trade we make to get Bell Labs, Xerox Parc and IBM Research, I'll take it.
