Academia is 90% a scam these days and plenty of the professors involved are criminals. A criminal is someone who commits a crime (or many) [1], before some purist comes to ask "what do you mean?".

The most common crime they commit is fraud, the 2nd. most common one is sexual harassment, while the third one would be plagiarism, although this one might not necessarily be punishable depending on the jurisdiction.

(IMO. I can't provide data on that and I'm not willing to prosecute them personally, if that breaks the deal for you, that's ok to me.)

I know academia like the palm of my hand and have been everywhere around the world, it's the same thing all over. I can speak loudly about it because I'm catholic and have money, so those lowlives can't touch me :D.

Every single time this topic comes up, there's a lot of resistance from "the public" who is willing to go to great lengths to defend "the academics" even though they know absolutely nothing about academic life and their only grasp of it was created through TV and movies.

Anyone who has been involved in Academia for more than like 2 years can tell you the exact same thing. That doesn't mean they're also rotten, I'm just saying they've seen all these things taking place around.

We should really move the overton window around this topic so that scientists are held to the same public scrutiny as everybody else, like public officials, because btw. 9 out of 10 times they are being funded by public money. They should be held accountable, there should be jail for the offenders.

1: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/criminal