I had someone like this for my advisor. Everybody knew they did terrible science and most of it was made up but they just kept getting away with it for reasons

I had someone like this for my advisor. Everybody knew they did terrible science and most of it was made up but they just kept getting away with it for reasons I'll never understand. Far from being looked down on they were promoted over and over again and praised for their high output regardless of how pointless and meaningless the actual papers were.