[machinekob]

Contemporary academia especially in the West has a massive surplus of staff.

Many people pursue academic careers solely for a comfortable lifestyle, doing minimal or even no research for long period of time. With extra lack of oversight that allows researchers to isolate themselves they create circles which cover each other.

Occasionally, folks outside of the circle come in and they start finding ton of fraud in the research with multiple big cases in past few years on top universities like Harvard for example.

[sega_sai]

Wow, experts in academic careers are contributing here. Can you please give us a source of your knowledge of why people pursue academic careers?

[rpcope1]

"Many people pursue academic careers solely for a comfortable lifestyle, doing minimal or even no research for long period of time. With extra lack of oversight that allows researchers to isolate themselves they create circles which cover each other."

I want what you're smoking because that might be one of the biggest fabrications I've heard in a long time.

[op00to]

lol I have never worked as hard as when I worked for an R1 university. My big tech job is way more like a resort vacation, complete with snacks and drinks.

[evil-olive]

> Many people pursue academic careers solely for a comfortable lifestyle, doing minimal or even no research for long period of time.

do you have any concrete evidence (that is not based on vibes, anecdotes, or "everyone knows") to support this claim?

[johnnyanmac]

What fraud happened at Harvard?

[prasadjoglekar]

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/8/3/hbs-prof-lawsuit...

[nis0s]

If you search “Harvard research fraud” at least three distinct cases come up.

[johnnyanmac]

I found 2. One is an ongoing lawsuit and the other seems mostly like stupidity because people keep falling for the stupid AI grift. I can barely trust AI to produce basic boilerplate and they are trying to verify novel research with it?