If you are a biologists and you want to keep your lab going, and you want to have RA-ships for your graduate students, you need to get grants. You aren't going to get grants unless you are cranking out publications. The days when as a biologist, you could work on a problem for several years, being careful, checking your work before you publish... those days are over. I'm confident the system will right itself eventually, hopefully in my lifetime.
