I hadn’t thought of it that way—it’s very plausible.
But some of the fraud in science is just lost purpose. If you need a certain number of publications to advance in your job, submitting fraudulent studies seems much more rewarding. And TVtropes doesn’t have a similar issue—in part because of the lack of respectability you noted.
I hadn’t thought of it that way—it’s very plausible.
But some of the fraud in science is just lost purpose. If you need a certain number of publications to advance in your job, submitting fraudulent studies seems much more rewarding. And TVtropes doesn’t have a similar issue—in part because of the lack of respectability you noted.