It's not rotten to the core. It's a complex system, full of human beings, with egos and incentives and other reasons for doing things. Different labs also do d

It's not rotten to the core. It's a complex system, full of human beings, with egos and incentives and other reasons for doing things. Different labs also do different things - mine is currently reworking a paper that was basically done because something we did might matter, and my students have developing tests as part of their workload for developing code.