&gt; Academia is fucked-up as well (chasing it&#x27;s proverbial tail by encouraging young researchers to publish, not to, you know, actually research).<p>I have to wonder how much of this phenomenon is due to genuine advances just being harder to come by. When others have already filled in the color between the lines in your field except for tiny bits in the corners here and there, what&#x27;s left to do but fudge experimental results, salami-slice what genuinely novel results you do see, and take advantage of publication bias?<p>Maybe researchers wouldn&#x27;t need to resort to these shenanigans if we weren&#x27;t running out of things to discover.