# Specialist Creators with Small Audiences

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/specialist-creators-with-small-audiences/580
**Category:** Elliot Temple
**Tags:** discussion-methodology, curiosity-blog
**Created:** [May 13, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/specialist-creators-with-small-audiences/580 "2022-05-13T17:44:33Z")
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#### Post date: [February 24, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/specialist-creators-with-small-audiences/580/41 "2025-02-24T23:25:03Z")

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> [@ActiveMind](#):
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> I still think they would think that the most prestigious people are the most able and intelligent.

> **[The Academic Culture of Fraud](https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/early-article-the-academic-culture)**
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> The sprawling bureaucracy of academia whose legitimacy rests on carrying out science has become a broken patronage machine that endangers scientific integrity.

> Those who do not commit fraud themselves usually tolerate it in their peers. The minority who will not tolerate frauds usually weed themselves out quietly. I have lost count of how many friends of friends entered a PhD program, had an adviser who tacitly or explicitly demanded they commit fraud to get publishable results, and quit in disgust without raising a public stink.

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