There is no consequence for selling quackery&#x2F;products that suck.<p>There is no consequence for writing quackery&#x2F;products that suck.<p>They are not separate phenomena. They are one and the same, done by different organizations. I should go a step further and say sometimes the way incentives align - you are actually encouraged to sell quackery, it is very profitable. Any system that doesn&#x27;t actively discourage the possibility of quackery being profitable is mediocre at it&#x27;s root.<p>It&#x27;s just mediocrity that goes unchecked. It is the same problem every time.