Thanks for sharing, that’s a pretty damning indictment of how science is currently done.

I think the two most important quotes being:

“The spread of ideas in the scientific community is often viewed as a competition, in which good ideas spread further because of greater intrinsic fitness, and publication venue and citation counts correlate with importance and impact.”

“We find that research from prestigious institutions spreads more quickly and completely than work of similar quality originating from less prestigious institutions.”