[pessimizer]

> It's a historical relic and it increasingly does not serve science well.

It's also pretty devastating evidence that the world is not going to improve in any sort of an organized way if the experts that we would expect to lead the effort for a rational world can't clean their own house. It's hard to trust academic systems to design ways to improve society when the academic system is built around an irrational base in journals.

An academic system that exhibits the same shitty array of characteristics as every other corrupt status quo institution doesn't give me a lot of hope for everything else.

[moffkalast]

I don't think anyone expects academics to fix anything, that's what we have politicians for, hah!

[fragmede]

Politicians get voted in, so they answer to the newspapers but in case that’s not funny enough, we tried just having an all powerful person in charge of things in the past but it turns out that works even even worse.

[watwut]

I dont know why would one expected academics and scientists to "lead the effort for a rational world" or be especially good at organizing or leading. It makes sense to expect them to be good at math, physics, sociology and what not.