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> By this logic all companies maliciously sell broken software in order to charge for updates.

Your analogy here is not great since the parent's claim is that academics have no incentive to produce good, reproducible research, not that they are maliciously creating bad research.

A more apt analogy would be:

"By this logic all companies would be driven by quarterly metrics and rush out broken software and then charge for updates/support"

... which is pretty much the exact state of the industry right now.