Comment by ttoinou

    A random bystander who happened to eavesdrop on a conversation between a group of scientists kvetching about The Incentives could be forgiven for thinking that maybe, just maybe, a bunch of very industrious people who generally pride themselves on their creativity, persistence, and intelligence could find some way to work around, or through, the problem.

Thats exactly what they did. They understood the incentives better than others and stayed away from The Officially Approved Science. Reducing talent quality is a good way way to help solve this problem : your system sucks = smart useful people are going somewhere else