You may or may not know me. But I felt I should say the following.
What is particularly dismaying is that not only does the flood
of publications reveal an abundance of pompous bluff and a
paucity of new ideas, but even the old and valuable insights
which we have inherited from our illustrious ancestors are
being drowned in a torrent of meaningless verbiage and useless
technicalities. Pretentious and nebulous verbosity,
interminable repetition of platitudes and disguised propaganda are
the order of the day, while at least 95% of research is indeed
re-search for things that have been found long ago and many
times since. In comparison with half a century ago, the average
quality of the publications (apart from those which deal with
techniques rather than the substance) has declined in a number
of fields.