> many papers making obvious low value findings (e.g. poor children do worse at school) and so on. Why are these obvious low value papers a) getting grants, b)

> many papers making obvious low value findings (e.g. poor children do worse at school) and so on. Why are these obvious low value papers a) getting grants, b) getting published, c) not permanently damaging the researchers' careers? If you do bad work you eventually get fired, why don't we do the same thing with research academics who do bad work?