> Doesn't this make the case that we should be building institutions and systems resistant to this type of cheating?

Absolutely. I think people are intimidated, demoralized (de-moralized) and where once they believed anything was possible, any social problem could be solved (even those old as history, such as women's rights, human rights, etc.), now they've somehow drunk the wrong Kool Aid, some stuff distributed by Jim Jones.

Time to get to work.

I don't think we can actually solve this on a case by case basis. Other threads in this discussion have highlighted cultural normalization of greed in one of its various forms and I would tend to agree with that angle.

Those systems that can be built to be resistant to greed would definitely benefit from it - but I think it's more of an issue with society at large.

We gotta start somewhere, and certainly the place to start isn't naysaying. What should we do?

Heh. We need to set up a research project that redteam/blueteams various journals and conferences. And bug bounties for disclosing zero-days in peer review processes/practices.

(The redeem/blueteam thing is kinda unethical, so maybe the University of Minnesota should do it...)