Until university positions and research grants stop being given out based on prior research _results_ (which is what journals tend to look for), we won't be abl

Until university positions and research grants stop being given out based on prior research _results_ (which is what journals tend to look for), we won't be able to trust the research performed there. There are millions of dollars on the line for researchers involved. It is the difference between a well paid career and a life of destitution while being a slave to huge student debt. Professorship and research grants should be given out based on criteria that are only incidental to research results. Evaluate profs and grants based on: 1. Domain knowledge (test the applicants) 2. Math skills (test the applicants, makes sure they know about how to avoid p-hacking, preregistration etc.) 3. Motivation and leadership. 4. Prior and current research _proposals_ (but without looking at the results or whether they have been published). 5. Other skills such as communication, interpersonal skills, outstanding achievements etc. Universities should not rely on journals to evaluate their professors. This corrupts the whole system. Journals have different goals. They want to publish well done research with interesting results. Universities should hire researchers that do good quality research with interesting _questions_ regardless of the results. If universities keep giving out jobs based on having generated interesting publishable results, they are going to keep getting researchers that ignore biases and and ignore bad science practices in order to generate publishable (but unreliable and often false) results.