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so waste taxpayer money on more positions which create more postdocs and grad students? Just kicks the problem down the road.

What if there's a limited social capacity to do science? As in, at any given time there's it's only worth it to allow some percentage of people to do science (and not all of them will be doing science). Throwing more money at the problem will only muddy the waters by drowning out the good voices with junk, and what you will see is thousands of journals, and more fraud and bad science percolating through the upper journals. Hmm...



I might agree with "What if there's a limited social capacity to do science?

but "more fraud and bad science" seems (to me) to be excaerbated by increased pressure for limited funding, rather than the opposite.




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