More and more academic scientific research is the author taking previous research, adding a spin to it, and claiming it's a new attack. This is nothing new. Th

More and more academic scientific research is the author taking previous research, adding a spin to it, and claiming it's a new attack. This is nothing new. There was a period of time when it seemed like all CompSci papers had to do with some variation on hashing. There was a period of time at OOPSLA where it seemed like some whopping big fraction of papers was just a Java port of something that had been done in Smalltalk several years before. "Publish or perish," is just academia's version of YouTubers posting 3 videos a week.