OTOH, weakening the ties between the industry and science can harm both of them. Right now in the university people get a rough idea of how science works, and m

OTOH, weakening the ties between the industry and science can harm both of them. Right now in the university people get a rough idea of how science works, and most of them then go to work in the industry, which sounds like a right proportion. Nobody is reading papers below PhD level anyway, so I don't think that it's undergrad papers that are a problem