The vast majority of science papers are created with a solution in mind that's looking for a problem. Someone pays for an intended outcome and they work their way towards it.

Related:

The scientists fighting the epidemic of fraudulent science research

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39244601

This is strikingly similar to the downfall of Quora that's on the frontpage right now and I agree with the answers on that discussion thread. The solution, to me, is to establish more moderation. Which is to say, incentivize reviewers from all over the world to read and critique any scientific work instead of publishers hoarding all of the profit by themselves.

And it's not gonna get better with the "help" of AI