Incentives in Academic Research

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The issue is, once you published the paper, and got the promotions and fame, it doesn’t matter that the results are wrong, and known to be wrong or misleading, and potentially doing harm to the advancement of science. Unfortunately, I am seeing more and more PhD students who are less and less interested in correctness, precision, and what I’d consider proper scientific conduct. Seemingly, researchers are less and less keen on correctness, precision, and scientific curiosity.

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