well yes. But these should go somewhere else than the papers that may actually contain significant results. The problem we have here is that there is an enormous quantity of such useless papers mixed in with the ones actually trying to do science.
I understand that part of the reason for that is that people need to appear as though they are part of the "actually trying" crowd to get the desired job effects. But it is nonetheless a problem, and a large one very worth at least trying to solve.
> I understand that part of the reason for that is that people need to appear as though they are part of the "actually trying" crowd to get the desired job effects
There's another less obvious problem: we don't always know what is groundbreaking and what is not until something is published and is accepted at large as being a really big deal.
I understand that part of the reason for that is that people need to appear as though they are part of the "actually trying" crowd to get the desired job effects. But it is nonetheless a problem, and a large one very worth at least trying to solve.