Science is hard, viciously competitive, and deeply cruel in all ways in order for some to win. Cheating, plagiarism, racism, sexual harassment, theft of ideas,

Science is hard, viciously competitive, and deeply cruel in all ways in order for some to win. Cheating, plagiarism, racism, sexual harassment, theft of ideas, publishing spam, .... Everything is in play in this game. Calling it "culture" and laying some "blame" is a convenient "we're the worst off subset of victims; it's not us, it's them" perspective but it will neither solve the problem nor address the actual condition--science is not a utopian island that is separate from big business economics, university branding and wealth, nor from geopolitics. Scientists have not figured out how to organize as well as any of those entities and will continue to be subjugated to their game and their system. When that is solved, the tools that abusers within the scientific community use against each other are more easily addressed. Perhaps in the meantime we can pass some more laws that that make it seem like we care, but the existing regulations that make racism/ageism/sexism/abuse illegal are not currently effective. But to be clear: we don't care. We fought as hard as we could to win at that game and we raise our kids to try to win at that game. MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Cal, Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, <insert your personal alma mater for which you have pride in its research capabilities>: you wanted to get in; maybe you did; you will desire for your kids to get in; they probably won't. The patents and rights of science and research are in the hands of someone who is not doing the work.