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Yep, I think the current 'publish or perish' pressures mentioned above lead to a lot of authorship issues, and generally have a negative impact on scientific advancement as a whole.

It seems to me, like most modern problems, money is at the root of this, with both big journals and the 'corporate capture' crowd incentivizing a quantity-over-quality approach to publication.

The big journals just want more to stuff to put behind their paywalls, and don't give a damn about the actual science. The corporate folks like sloppy work, because it helps them generate conveniently errant results, which let them astroturf scientific support for any profitable position, and confound any financially inconvenient findings.

On the whole, I think we're pretty much screwed until we find a way to break away from the capitalist incentives, and focus on research quality.