The President of Standford resigned last summer after a freshman student journalist exposed him for alleged fraud during his academic career lol. I'm not sympathetic to the scientists that say academia is broken. Typicaly these scientists want to have their cake and eat it too. Instead of heightening the consequences for discovered scientific fraud, the scientific community criticizes the system for enabling frauds due to the reward system which bestows top positions, big money grants and awards to researchers that produce positive results in contrast to null-hypothesis-cels lol.
Maybe im stupid but are you saying that they dont want consequences for their faulty research and so instead of getting penalized, they just dont get any rewards, allowing them to continue their fraud without worry? I dont know much about academia but does not getting reprimanded encourage academic fraud to this point. Or maybe just removing people from high positions doesn't fix the root cause?
They believe equally distributing the monies and jobs to all researchers whether they're working on cutting edge research, simply replicating/confirming discoveries or producing duds. Basically arguing for a "process over results" style of management/operation. Apparently this will dissuade fraudsters from over embellishing their findings in hopes securing rewards.
Fake research will not reach the Nobel Prize since the eligibility for those prizes is very rigorous. The recent Nobel winners had people working on a project for over three decades.
