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I think it's fair to blame this one on capitalism-like structures without implying that the way to solve this is communism. Clearly institutional competition f

I think it's fair to blame this one on capitalism-like structures without implying that the way to solve this is communism. Clearly institutional competition for grant money has increased and changed what it means to be a successful researcher. Incentives are displacing virtues. But it's hard to find incentives, especially financial ones, that are fully aligned with honest research. Maybe we are trying too hard to find those.

origin_path 4y ago
Capitalism-like structures? The corruption here is fully within academia, which is a non-capitalist reputation economy running parallel to the real one. Absolutely nothing about this event has anything to do with capitalism except the fact that capitalist incentives and systems (short selling) led to its exposure. Really, the whole point of academia is that it's not capitalism. It's much closer to communism. Resources are allocated by committee according to the priorities of the state. There are no price or market signals anywhere, and who gets ahead is largely related to how well they project their own work upwards. Plus of course, it seems to be strongly ideological. Academia is completely dominated by the left to the extent that in some departments there are almost no conservatives at all.