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Well it doesn't just revolve around money, despite behind a huge factor. You have to imagine too that scientists would rather work on something that will likely grant some kind of progress, as well as wanting to start on something that already has a basis. The reputation most concepts such as an afterlife have is generally a bad one with most experiments ending in failure, so it's not a certain field of research to be in. On top of that, scientists might also be scared to taint their names by working in a field with a high density of pseudo scientists.
In terms of experiments on afterlife, I faintly remember one currently running, and it seemed to be very "legit". If I find it I'll post it here
I totally agree with this post. The kind of tragicomical thing with science as I see it though. Is the last statement you mentioned, that