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Anything that you do as a career will lead to this.

- Split a paper into three

- Waste efforts by running the same research with a slight change

- Plagiarism

- Inter-peer favors (corruption, dishonesty)

Funding/grants, journals, publishers, paper count requirements, are the true source of these behaviors.

This is what markets are when left to develop. Academia made itself game-able. You can't have truth and profits sit in the same room.

Capitalism has made a very nice chair for careerism to sit in.



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