[jcattle]

Yes all good points showing issues that academia has at the moment.

However I often see this going from "there's issues" to discounting academia altogether and positioning private labs as a good or only alternative.

After all, most people in the open science collaboration which published the seminal paper kicking off the replication crisis were from academia.

[MrBuddyCasino]

Yes there is no substitute for academia. Monopolist's research labs get close (Bell Labs etc), but they tend to be more "applied".