I work in EdTech in public research and the amount of crap published, the pervasive wishful thinking and the tendencies to focus only on the micro-actions that

I work in EdTech in public research and the amount of crap published, the pervasive wishful thinking and the tendencies to focus only on the micro-actions that can be easily measured is unbelievable. I wonder how many are secretly as cynical as I am but keep going because of job security.