I do see how ugly it gets all the time in real BS research. I don't know if you know how the fraud is getting into science so I will share what I think. Ever wonder how the Big Bang Theory was named. It was specifically given the name theory because they knew people would question it if they called it the Big Bang Hypothesis and that the confusion would help them make converts. It has worked so well they have continued the practice. See the Theory of Evolution Hypothesis. They just forget to categorize their ideas properly and people join the religion of scientism.

P.S Up voting your own post is really just more curation value and I don't think people should mistake up votes for likes. I also up vote comments because it ads more curation value to the post. Authors should up vote commenters on their post for the same reason, even if they don't like the commenters comment. It is all about raising the value of steem in the end. LOL