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At least where I live, many start earning some salary from academic contribution of some minor sort during the bachelor's trajectory, typically by assisting in lessons to lower classes, most art to do so during master's, and Ph.D. students are employed by the institute that promotes them and earn a full salary for their research.

The real issue isn't that, the real issue to me is quite a few research fields are purely taking part in œconomy and entertainment, and essentially funded of sponsorships generate by spectacular news reports and nothing more.

A very large quantity of scientific research is purely infotainment and doesn't actually generate knowledge that is used for anything but merely interesting to read, which is what could cause the replication crisis to go unnoticed for so long among other things: no one found out, as no one was using it in any way that relied upon it's veracity, and many even made up data for decades and went unnoticed.

I recently read a paper that studied some social parts of the acquisition of language in Japanese, — quite interesting to read, and as usual it was quite spectacular because the findings went against the established ideas, but this knowledge merely exists to be “fascinating” and it won't ever be used for anything that assumes it's veracity, and as a consequence the data could have been pulled from the æther and no one would ever find out and replication will surely never occur,and even if it would, it would be too late as some years would have passed and the original auctor can always argue that these social matters changed within the interval.




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