[voakbasda]

I had the same experience as GP. I dropped out of a PhD program after witnessing widespread low-level fraud.

I published a single paper with my advisor. I asked questions that a peer reviewer would have asked, and my concerns were basically ignored. It was more important to publish than be accurate and precise with wording (partly due to length limits imposed by the publication). Pushing back harder likely would have had a deleterious effect on my progress in the program. It would have been career suicide.

Worse, the topic was nothing more than rehashed results from a paper he published years earlier. There was really nothing even worth publishing. This was but one example that showed me that academia is endemic with fraud.

Eventually I killed that career path, because I could never participate in such a fundamentally corrupt system. There will be no reform here without Revolution.