as long as people get jobs without merit we will see lots of these idiots in positions of power....
I would think the paradigm of hiring people with college degrees is the best way to go ,is shattered.
They get their power by black-listing true intellectually able individuals who perceive, isolate, prove and publish fraudery. Such people are not idiots. They are simply capable but lazy self-serving copiers who wish to occupy high-paying tenured offices quickly without earning their way upward by their own productivity.
Knock out the academic tenure machine and the problem goes away, IMHO.