[newaccount670]

US Science needed this. Racism, sexism, plagiarism, and fraud were rampant in the academic community. It's going to take a long time to fully fix the problem, but we are on the right path currently.

[epistasis]

No it did not, and even if there was a correction needed, this most certainly is not that correction.

[kalstone]

You are willfully blind if you do not think those have been major and prevailing issues in our insitutions. To kill a virus, it can take drastic measures, like a fever. But after it's over, the host recovers and is once again healthy

[johnsmith1840]

President of stanford was fired over fraudulent research if that's not rampant then what is?

[epistasis]

What do you want more than the firing?

If a CEO commits a crime does that mean the entire industry must ne shut down?

What sort of reasoning is this?

[johnsmith1840]

Broken window theory to the extreme.

If the leader of one of the countries most famous research groups commited research fraud with a slap on the wrist it's not hard to realize how broken it is.

I have personally worked with famous researchers and seen a few fudge their work.

Acting ignorant of the major flaws implies you haven't been involved, or inside a bubble of research nirvana.