And that is part of the problem. Having gone through a phd, this unspoken religiosity that underlies scientific research where you are expected to be monks for science contributes to stuff like this.
Some architect grads I knew once mentioned hiding their building models in the classroom ceiling in the leadup tp their final exams. When I asked why, they said that there was a non-trivial risk that if you left your model out in the classroom other students would damage it to let a leg up on the competition, and the more ambitious the final project the greater the risk. In my innocence I was quite shocked, but as so often, once you become aware of such behavior you start noticing it in many other contexts.
At least, some do, and the better orders are built that way. There are plenty of bad ones, too, as I'm sure we've all heard, who don't do any of that - Who lord their pledges of service to the lord over those they consider lesser. That style seems to be more what modern academia is following.