Why do we foster and grant wrong innovative scientific methods? The Neuroscientific Challenge

National or intra-national research programs (like FP7 or H2020, in EU zone) foster and reinforce specific ways to do research, selecting the best proposals to implement next researches thanks the provided funds. Very frequently, these programs are based on beliefs about the reliability and best chances of becoming successful researches. We analyse how EU flagship Human Brain Project (henceforth, HBP) was overestimated as a successful innovative project and, on the other side, how other innovative ways to work on neuroscientific research (fMRI, statistical data analysis) have led the discipline to important dead-end epistemological results. Other flaws into new methodological implementations offer an insight to the complexity of research field advances. The keys of the guidance and orientation in scientific innovation are, thus, revised under the light of these phenomena.