If there are no criminal penalties for the vast majority of academic fraud, it will continue unabated. Similarly, financial fraud is not prosecuted in almost a

If there are no criminal penalties for the vast majority of academic fraud, it will continue unabated. Similarly, financial fraud is not prosecuted in almost all cases in the USA. And those who do get prosecuted often pay nominal fines if convicted, while they were raking in 8+ figures in personal profits. Scientific fraud isn't going anywhere, and neither is academic fraud. In fact, it will only continue to worsen as most of the Global North is in a post-Truth, post-meritocratic society. Heck, tenured professors and administrators often will not even be censured except in the most extreme cases, let alone lose their jobs, let alone ever see the inside of a prison cell.