<div dir="ltr">The idealised view of science as the curiosity-driven pursuit of knowledge to understand and improve the world around us has been tarnished. Recent news tells of systematic fraud and mass retraction of research papers from the Chinese academic system, and allegations of attempts to game the peer-review system on an industrial scale.<div><br><a href="http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1758662/china-must-restructure-its-academic-incentives-curb-research">http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1758662/china-must-restructure-its-academic-incentives-curb-research</a></div></div>