Outrage over a single low-quality paper, of which there are thousands across academia, misses the larger point. The real issue is the systemic problem within academia, where creative thinkers are often stifled early in their careers. Researchers find themselves forced to align their work with the direction of funding sources or their superiors' interests, resulting in a significant misallocation of resources. Annually, billions of dollars are buried in research that lacks true innovation or independence. This is a far more critical issue than the work of this literal nobody dean. What's even more funny is that the same individuals quick to criticize such low-hanging fruit often do everything in their power to avoid scrutiny themselves, especially regarding the inefficient use of tax dollars and the insignificance of their research areas.
This isn't just a low quality paper. It is two paragraphs long. Its very last sentence is a sentence fragment. It just says "Rest may be important for train operators. Rest is also important for this particular kind of fly species."
I've seen low quality papers get published before, but they are enormously better than this. Even the very worst papers I've ever seen in peer review and given strong rejects to are enormously better than this. This wouldn't even cut it for a poster proposal at a conference.
I would expect a 6th grader writing a science report that they were given two weeks to complete to produce better writing than this.
