Maybe it would be a good idea to have an exception where an academic paper with a p-value that's right on the borderline can get published if he or she can find

Maybe it would be a good idea to have an exception where an academic paper with a p-value that's right on the borderline can get published if he or she can find someone at another institution to replicate their results. At the very least it would ensure that someone else is reproducing their methodology. There's a potential for abuse (as always), but perhaps you could curb it by mandating that you can only use the same co-submitter once. The other (likely bigger) problem would be figuring out how to get funding for it. Full disclosure, I've never worked in a academia before, so please take this all with a grain of salt.