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In Russia, they have a very strange system that is rewarding hyperproduction of spam papers. Basically, more papers = higher salary?! Quality doesn't matter.

The only thing I can remember were some old-school papers about electrophysiology

Yeah, this example is particularly bad because there just isn't any logical scientific basis for the theory.

I'd be curious to read more about Russian hyperproduction of spam papers. Perhaps that's worth a steemit post?