Particles that are their own antiparticles discovered.

[Osmeric]

That's not what I'm saying at all though. Keeping your tenure as a research professor at a university means you have publication requirements. You have to get things published in a peer review journal. Of course, I suppose they could band together to help each other keep their jobs but that can potentially fuck their reputation so it doesn't happen.

Of course, this can often lead to very trivial things being published that aren't really that important and then non-science people exaggerating those publications and making absurd claims based on them but that's a separate issue.

If you read that link you'll see you've described one of the core pathologies of the current scientific enterprise. The incentives for scientists are perverse.

[Osmeric]

It was kind of a shit ton to read and I don't really have time now.

Well, ok, but the essay savages the point you're try to make. Maybe you should stop making it until you've read the argument against it.