Up until the 1940's, "publish or perish" wasn't the obsession, publishing what was thoroughly vetted but not before it was ready. The sheer volume of substandar

Up until the 1940's, "publish or perish" wasn't the obsession, publishing what was thoroughly vetted but not before it was ready. The sheer volume of substandard, barely novel papers allowed and the artificial expectations to produce a blizzard of publications foisted on researchers are the central problems.