Article is Asinine (Score 1)

This article is IMHO, ridiculus. How did they assume that that many scientists just copied w/o reading? Of course some do, but I think a great amount also at least glance over it to see if it is relevant. As for the controversy surrounding academia, it is totally possible for these things to happen, as people are very greedy as a rule, especially in the US. The problem stems from funding, I think. The number and "quality" of papers published has an impact on whether that researcher receives funding. If it gets bad enough, some professors could even steal credit from their graduate students! The case mentioned above is where this actually occured. I imagine many professors do want their advisees to succeed, but some are just too greedy.