Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects

Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ... by jjoonathan on Thursday October 26, 2017 @07:37PM (#15564239)

Turn the competition knob to 0, everybody slacks. Turn it to 11, everybody cheats.

It's at 10. We're hearing more and more about large cheating scandals. I wonder, what could possibly be wrong with the system?

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Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ... by gtt on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:05AM (#15568354)

I don't think slacking in science is a bad thing. Less papers means less noise and if people are not sufficiently motivated by their ideas themselves may be it is best for everyone they are not publishing.

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Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ... by tertius on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:01PM (#15564389)

And beyond cheating we have a lot of bad science. * Reproducibility project.

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