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Comment by vsuperpower2020

12 days ago

You think this has been going on forever? You probably don't realize the shift in professionality because you experienced the degradation in real time.

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sigmoid10  12 days ago

There is no shift in the professionalism curve. Good researchers are still good and bad ones are still bad in that regard. But if you 10x the number of researchers and/or papers in a field, the bottom 10% will seem like they are a lot more common. Especially for people outside the field who have no way of discerning high quality from low quality papers, which is all too common on HN.