This sort of stuff, the general lack of interest in method in the drive to publish, has really killed a lot of my faith in the idea of a scientific method. It c

This sort of stuff, the general lack of interest in method in the drive to publish, has really killed a lot of my faith in the idea of a scientific method. It can't work, we can't produce good, useful knowledge if even the best scientists at top flight institutions just regard it as a shell game where the facsimile of a result is as good as a real result, as long as you can sneak it past publishers, who are playing the same game with the public.