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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by neuromantik8086 on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:22PM (#17594196)
> driver by reputation ("publications", "impact factor") and where the bad eggs can't even be fired ("tenure")

From personal experience, I've always felt as though the existence of "rock star" academics always gave academia a Hollywood-like feel in terms of systemic abuse and candidly bizarre and maladaptive behaviors on the part of researchers.

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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by 1996 on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:45PM (#17595817)
At least Hollywood has tabloids to keep things reasonable!
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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by neuromantik8086 on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:45PM (#17597734)
Academia does have Retraction Watch [0]. Unfortunately/fortunately, it operates outside the system.

[0] https://retractionwatch.com/

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