In the HN discussions about posts like this, there tend to be several comments from people saying they left the academic world because they were disgusted with

In the HN discussions about posts like this, there tend to be several comments from people saying they left the academic world because they were disgusted with what they saw. This is a worrying signal, because it tells me that fraud is so pervasive in some fields that just exposing one paper as fraud is not going to fix it. Also, like the article suggests, there appears to be pressure to dismiss the fraud suspicions by the institutions and the journals. These tell me that the problems are systematic, because the system does not automatically correct the faults -- but tries to prevent them from being corrected. In a culture that is based on trust, like science, we should see a very different attitude towards fixing failures.