I get that, and you may not be wrong. It's that you may be right about the wrong thing. All this stuff matters a lot if you're pursuing a career in academia. Bu

I get that, and you may not be wrong. It's that you may be right about the wrong thing. All this stuff matters a lot if you're pursuing a career in academia. But from the outside it just means the machine of science is a bit less efficient than it could be. Also I put it to you that serious researchers are rarely misled by low quality, vacuous papers. That kind of work will be ignored by history. So I agree that what you're pointing out is something of a problem, but may not constitute a cataclysm.