There's No Cost to Being Wrong in Science

There is no corrective mechanism for stopping people from wasting their life and wanking pointlessly. There isn't a single field of knowledge where there's a single person who could read all the academic papers. It doesn't matter how much you get published, what matters is that you get published. The journals are just making money. And it's in everybody's interest to keep this ridiculous charade going. You have to be making better cars. There has to be something coming out of all of this wanking or else it's just wanking.