Comment Re:Quantity, not quality, is often prioritised. (Score 1) 453
Whether the conclusions of those are true or false is not something that hiring committees will delve into too much
Rightly so. False conclusions are good for science, as long as they're honest. The pursuit for something new will eventually lead to the correct answer.
It's good that the protagonist of the article (Schooler) recognizes and admits the problem.
The people above who are focussing on pharma are missing the point, which is also the failure of the article. The author carefully avoids widening the perview which might then include other sciences which are hot topics these days.