Science has slowed down so that’s why they faking everything they need the money and the Nobel prize needs to keep giving more awards away
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.
The median age for the winners is 54.9 years. Usually, those people are already respected in their fields and acknowledged for their contributions. Those prizes are the consequence of life-long commitments that resulted in boundary-pushing research -- though the prizes are honorary -- they don't serve as primary incentives because the statistical chance of getting one is low. Many thousands of top scientists will never win a Nobel, and it does not matter.
The point is that these people who fake their studies want to reach short-term gains that might accumulate into an eventual stable position for an institution or private company. You can tell their qualities are of the lower kind by how they emphasize point scoring over tangible research outcomes.
I think the incentive structure in research today has become very gamified, where people eventually try to maximize them by any means. It contributes to a bad culture, ending with people in already good positions further faking their way to the next goal. A primary issue with research today is impatience.
For example, we have slow progress in one research area (e.g., ancient DNA in East Africa, when the cost of doing such research is many times cheaper than a decade ago). One observes extreme inequalities where other areas over-produce low-quality material. Maybe low-grade material is better than nothing. But still, I think scientists' egos need to be checked.
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