It sounds so perverse the way Scientists are incentivized through number of articles published and quantity over quality. I think the only way to battle this is to probably not succumb to it if it is possible to survive and make a living as a scientist in the meantime. And yes, ideas are so easily copied and stolen - from what I have seen there is no defense, although I do believe there is starting to be more of a crackdown on legal trolls that file patents in order to sue and make money. The only other defense on ideas is to just keep having them and having good ones, because the liars and cheats are not able to generate their own original ideas. Sooner or later the world somehow figures out authenticity and karma catches up to the cheats.
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Also remember, many of these scientists are smart and can see that game that has to be played to get/stay employed. So we should not be surprised when they play in a way to maximize their gain in this game (publication count).
Also, getting external funding (mainly grants) is a similar type of game with crazy things happening (I've been a grant reviewer enough times to see some of the stuff). This along with some other issues (lack of funding of public universities for one) has caused some tenured faculty to leave and find employment elsewhere.
I also publish (not too often) but luckily its not a requirement for my current job (it does help for promotion)
Fair point. Just a shame that you and other scientists need to waste their precious time playing those games. Any good luck and congrats on launching a post that stimulated so many responses! You picked a hot and original topic for Steemit :)
exactly, I think that sooner or later the frauds will be found out in these companies.
For your remarks about the ideas, I think that the blockchain itself and steemit can be interesting solutions to protect the author of ideas: if it is published first on the blockchain, it can´t be faked and it will prove that you were the first to have the idea.
The blockchain is good for what it is, a general ledger of events, however, without laws wrapped around it, it will be meaningless. There was a thought provoking short post on this site about contracts and the blockchain.
https://www.thehutchreport.com/blog-post/2017/6/20/blockchain-smart-contracts-what-happens-if-they-are-not-honored
They are also on steemit: @thehutchreport
Basically saying we are still going to need some robust legal structures built up around this.
Interesting! Thanks for the link I will check it out!