Most pure research is federally funded, because any profitable use of new science is usually far down the road. It is illegal to use federal research funds for personal enrichment, and researchers' peers have a careful eye on each other's behavior, in general. A few get caught. I can't access your Facebook post because I don't have a Facebook membership nor do I want one. R&D means research and development, the two of which are combined in private enterprise, not in academe, where research generally stands alone, and the patents belong usually to the university. You don't understand the meaning of pure research or its importance to science, and if anything is swinish it is your impugning the motivation of scientists.