I knew I wasn’t suited to academia within six months of starting a PhD, but this piece from the economist nicely encapsulates my frustrations
The hallowed process of peer review is not all it is cracked up to be, either. When a prominent medical journal ran research past other experts in the field, it found that most of the reviewers failed to spot mistakes it had deliberately inserted into papers, even after being told they were being tested.
The experiment was not an outlier either, it has been replicated many times, including this piece published in Science. I don’t know that anything in academia should or will change as these articles suggest, but I do believe people going into the field should enter with their eyes open.