What's really insidious is that they're not allowing these papers to be included in progress reports.

> After removing the 16 papers, “I said, well, Jesus, we’re not reporting anything. It’s very frustrating,” Drummond says. “I don’t know how they’re going to evaluate our productivity.”

This creates bad data where teams look less productive than they actually are. Next year, they'll use that as an excuse to cut funding.