[canaus]

Influence exists everywhere because without influence the studies wouldn't exist in the first place.

[azinman2]

And people need careers, successful publications and grants make that possible.

That isn’t to say everything is trash— lots of good stuff is still done with these requirements.

[lupire]

Unless you have a wealthy aristocracy and some of them are bored so they create a lot of the major science of past couple of centuries.