The problem isn't where it is published but of institution and incentives and their impact upon career and their works. If looking for spurious correlations to

The problem isn't where it is published but of institution and incentives and their impact upon career and their works. If looking for spurious correlations to get sexy results is the way to get tenure you are going to see a lot more sloppy science regardless of how harshly you punish it. We don't (or shouldn't) trust in cases of major conflicts of interest. Being caught taking bribes to influence results would be a black list worthy move but institutions of all sorts effectively do the same thing with more indirection accidentally or otherwise. Regardless of aims pushes can create bad science. Behind many private testing scandal was a blind push to improve throughput and expenses with no regards to accuracy. I definitely don't have an answer to how to restructure it better - much less a way that is practical or able to get any political acceptance.