At many of our leading institutions in the hard sciences, rehashed work, data stolen from other teams, photoshopped images and a bit of plagiarism is enough to get you by.
Once you get to the social "sciences", it is much worse.
Karma cannot be denied and the result is that work outcomes with a PhD are derisible, since employers have worked out that something does not compute about the quality of freshly minted PhDs.
People complain about the US education system and higher-ed being bad or dumbed=-down. I'm like, compared to what? Much of the rest of the worst is worse in this regard. Cheating and plagiarism rampant. I've seen math papers in arxiv where the stuff is rehashed. Almost never US institutions.
At many of our leading institutions in the hard sciences, rehashed work, data stolen from other teams, photoshopped images and a bit of plagiarism is enough to get you by.
Once you get to the social "sciences", it is much worse.
Karma cannot be denied and the result is that work outcomes with a PhD are derisible, since employers have worked out that something does not compute about the quality of freshly minted PhDs.