Article: Friend or foe? Nature (PhD student)

"As a PhD student, learning to navigate the murky waters of collaboration and competition is pretty confusing........But many labs continue to jealously guard their progress and sacrifice paper quality for personal recognition. Should such egotism be acceptable in science, the main aims of which are, ideally, discovery and innovation, rather than accolades for its practitioners? As a young researcher, I am puzzled that a community reliant on integrity and transparency is tolerant of lies and misdirection in the publications race....."