[rhelz]

Of course, it has nothing to do with rampant fraud, unreproducible results, incentive structures which reward the number of papers over the quality of papers, having researchers spend their prime scientific years writing grant proposals instead of actual research...

...nor does it have anything to do with tech companies hoarding cash by the trillions of dollars oversees instead of spending it on R&D, and even what R&D they internally produce they have no incentive to publish or productize, because virtually no new business will be more profitable than the monopoly business they already have...