Comment Re:Wish I could say I was surprised (Score 1) 178
No, "publish or perish" really dis-incentivizes novel research because guess what, often times really novel research fails. All "publish or perish" really does is incentivize either cheating or the lowest risk research imaginable. There are other mechanisms for making sure a researcher is actually doing their work, punishing them for taking risks shouldn't be among them.
If novel research is failing peer-review, I don't see that not publishing is a good answer to that. A convenient one, no doubt.