Of course my statement wasn't meant to be absolute. I come from an engineering background. I am not surprised that in a medical setting the situation is somewhat different, after all I guess the stakes there are higher. If your CFD code does not perform well, who cares. If your analysis of some medication is crap, chances somebody cares is going to be much higher.

Also from experience, it helps if universities have closer ties to industry. As an industrial player you can't work with software that does not deliver reproducible results.