Well... spending a few weeks reproducing a shiny conference paper that simply doesn't work and is easily beaten by any classical baseline will do that to you in the first few months of your PhD imo. I've become so skeptic over the years that I assume almost all papers to be lies until proven otherwise.
"This surfaces the fundamental tension between good science and career progression buried deep at the heart of academia. Most researchers are to some extent “career researchers”, motivated by the power and prestige that rewards those who excel in the academic system, rather than idealistic pursuit of scientific truth."
For the first years of my PhD I simply refused to parttake in the subtle kinds of frauud listed in the second paragraph of the post. As a result, I barely had any publications worth mentioning. Mostly papers shared with others, where I couldn't stop the paper from happening by the time I realized that there is too little substance for me to be comfortable with it.
As a result, my publication history looks sad and my carreer looks nothing like I wished it would.
Now, a few years later, I've become much better at research and can now get my papers to the point where I'm comfortable submitting them with a straight face. I've also came to terms with overselling something that does have substance, just not as much as I wish it had.