"Cargo cult science means conforming to misaligned incentives. For academics, it optimizes the proxy objective “publish journal articles,” which has increasingly diverged from the actual objective, understanding natural phenomena."
https://betterwithout.ai/stop-obstructing-science
What's responsible for this? The materialism that not grips most universities and other #research institutions. In which job security and promotion depends - at least in part - on the quantity of journal articles published.
