>What else can be done? This isn't a meritocracy, it's just capitalism. What an absurd take. Just because it involves money doesn't mean it's "capitalism"s fau

>What else can be done? This isn't a meritocracy, it's just capitalism. What an absurd take. Just because it involves money doesn't mean it's "capitalism"s fault, for starters because this has way more to do with regulatory capture than anything else. The number one reason for all these fraudulent research is that it has become mandatory for phds, and that education in the west is subsidized to a point that you need a phd to qualify for jobs that would have only required a bachelor's 50 years ago. There's a law of diminishing returns to science, so vastly increasing the amount of people researching is going to disappoint lots of them. It's only reasonable that a number of them will take the easy way out and cheat.