If we were designing things from scratch, I'd even want t odisaggregate two career tracks for scientists: The first, theorists, design interesting studies with

If we were designing things from scratch, I'd even want t odisaggregate two career tracks for scientists: The first, theorists, design interesting studies with open ended questions, explain how the study would provide useful scientific results, or theorize about the implications of existing published results. The second, practitioners, are hired to actually run the studies according to the specifications provided. The practitioners would publish null results of course. Practitioners would also have to acknowledge how many of their results are significant, so it'd be transparent if they were just confirming everything. A bit like barristers and solicitors in many common law countries, a distinction that isn't strictly necessary for the system to work, but prevents some conflicts of interest.