[myle]

Are you trying to provide an example for many of the points of OP above or am I overreading this?

In your message I observe, very careful criticism, uncalled praise, admission and defense of a system that excludes most criticism...

[jrumbut]

I'm joking a bit with the style and my limited experience leads me to agree with the OP.

The middle paragraph includes my sincere response that a system where discovery is rewarded, failure forgiven, and dishonesty punished is ideally suited to the mission of science.

So I was left wondering if the OP would expand on what their thoughts were about the interesting consequences.