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You're still arguing circularly. I know that what you mention is exactly the reason why academics don't write more code.

I'm saying it would be better for society if the academic culture emphasized the craft of coding, rather than solely "new ideas". The whole point of this article is that the emphasis on "new ideas" incentivizes fraud.

Academic culture changes faster than you think. I expect that the structural changes caused by online courses will have a big effect in the near future.

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In my experience, it's already at the point where a focus on trade and craft actually hampers innovation in an academic context, because so much of the funding comes from industry. Most papers today are about safe, incremental improvements rather than bold new ideas, because there's no obvious money in significant breaks from tradition. I think we need to let academia and industry each do their job: academia can produce great, wild ideas and discover fundamental truths, and industry can refine them into something profitable.