But I don't think it's just like a statistician shortage. It's that most researchers are rushing to get as many papers as possible published (which, yeah, is arguaby an 'economic' _incentive_ to do statistics sloppily; but mostly I mean they don't feel they have _time_ to do it right), and most universities are trying to cut internally funded research budgets (meaning no money to pay all these extra statisticians, even if they were trained).

It's a "market" problem with how the work of science is actually materially rewarded and sustained. Papers, papers, papers. (Which for that matter -- a good properly trained statistician ought to have the same academic status as the researchers, but you don't get tenure by helping someone else analyze their research...)