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I am shocked at how all the focus in the article and in this thread are about getting the degree with little regards for doing good science. Pushing yourself t

I am shocked at how all the focus in the article and in this thread are about getting the degree with little regards for doing good science. Pushing yourself to publish every year creates noise in the scientific literature and often leads to data cherry picking and massaging which is not just "questionable" as the article claims but completely invalidates everything a researcher does and makes him or her a fraud. The fact that it is tolerated makes it really hard to trust the research coming out of universities nowadays.

neltnerb 12y ago
Lots of good science is never published because they get a null or negative result from a utility perspective. That's just part of the scientific method. And the job of a PhD student is to get their PhD, which requires them to demonstrate a good understanding of how to do science, but shouldn't require them to publish in a top-tier journal or make a seminal discovery. That's for your postdoc...