I think there's an equally large meta-incentive problem: the people who have power within the system are generally incentivised not to rock the boat, and the people who would like to rock the boat generally don't have power. This bind could be broken by external pressure (from government, itself incentivised by popular pressure) but it's very hard for most outsiders to understand and evaluate proposed changes, so even if the will was there, I don't know how much would be accomplished.
As an interested outsider myself, it's pretty depressing seeing how high the risk:reward ratio seems to be for people within academia who are driven to clean it up and call out bad actors, and how high the reward:risk ratio is for those who are willing to cut corners (or just plain cheat, if they do it in a minimally competent way).
As an interested outsider myself, it's pretty depressing seeing how high the risk:reward ratio seems to be for people within academia who are driven to clean it up and call out bad actors, and how high the reward:risk ratio is for those who are willing to cut corners (or just plain cheat, if they do it in a minimally competent way).