Professor calls out cherry-picked results, hype, and withheld code in academia
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-20
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje directly names academia's sins in his thread: cherry-picking results, exaggeration, hype, dishonesty about limitations, and withholding data and code. He also questions whether paper counts, citations, H-indexes, and venue prestige were ever the right currency for judging talent.
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