Independent think tank, Data for Progress, concluded in the 2023 report, “Accountable Allies” that 27 US Universities accepted over $677 million from six oil giants over a decade. This influence has led universities to shift priorities. The result: a complicated, anomaly plagued, low innovation industry using fossil fuel friendly constraints that cannot be questioned. Since the adoption of Plate Tectonic Theory in 1962, fossil fuel consumption has risen 2000% while Earthquake prediction has seen no measurable improvement. If Earth has vortex driven supercell fossils in the mantle, like my models suggest, a plate driven set of constraints would the produce anomalies, imbalanced results, and low innovation that characterize the entire geophysics industry. All of these issues, contribute why it is the least diverse STEM, dead last for 50 years. My dad always said, follow the $. In this case, the $ tells one part of the story, and my research in Zealandia and vortex fossils tells the rest.