bureaucracy cannot guarantee the quality of research beyond the jet ski bar hierarchies are established to ensure that the PI gets citations from the work of p

bureaucracy cannot guarantee the quality of research beyond the jet ski bar hierarchies are established to ensure that the PI gets citations from the work of postdocs and postgrads typical grants encourage shallow trend-chasing or incremental continuation of the research of - often disinterested - senior PIs who simply get grants because they have gotten a lot of grants. The chase of the state of the art is just another incremental step - that 's shallow a research partner is not necessarily a subordinate