[adrianrocamora]

I'm a researcher myself and I guess this is one of those "does the end justify the means?" scenarios... Out bad research and its perpetrators and science loses out on a scientist that actually wants to do good work. Or don't and then watch yourself rationalize worse decisions later on for the sake of your research, slowly becoming as corrupt as they were and realizing that a lot of your cited work could potentially be as bad (or worse) as the ones you helped get published.

I really believe we need a better way. Privately funded / bootstrapped OPEN research comes to mind as a potential solution to bring some healthy competition to this potentially corrupt system. Mathematicians are starting to do this, I think computational researchers have the potential to be next.