It was shown recently that many scientific papers are full of crap and that the entire process of reviewing them is full of loopholes, allowing for a perpetual “I copy from you, you copy from me” type of mutual gratification that has nothing to do with actual science.
1%er turns out to be massive fraud once basic scrutiny is applied. Many such cases, I’m sure.
Seriously though, how closely are people looking at these “prestige (read: nepotism) scholars?”
There could be a great many nepo scholarship papers that were not reviewed closely.
It was shown recently that many scientific papers are full of crap and that the entire process of reviewing them is full of loopholes, allowing for a perpetual “I copy from you, you copy from me” type of mutual gratification that has nothing to do with actual science.