Funding means you're answerable to your funders and the whole point of this film was that I would be free - free to make my own decisions and my own mistakes.
So the inspector general urged the state to give workers another option, one that would indicate a need for continuing assessment in these in-between cases.
He was willing to assert that "I have a fair share of invention, and of common sense or judgment, such as every fairly successful lawyer or doctor must have, but not, I believe, in any higher degree."
It is crucially important for researchers especially scientists to judge the correctness and timeliness of data and experiments according to provenance.