You can judge a musician in a 20-minute audition, but you can't tell if research will reproduce without doing the work. However, there are papers that are so va

You can judge a musician in a 20-minute audition, but you can't tell if research will reproduce without doing the work. However, there are papers that are so vague and poorly written that they cannot possibly be reproducible, and this is becoming the norm in some fields, so I think you're right that standards would help there. Also, sometimes strange things just happen randomly (like the CERN faster-than-light neutrinos) and there's no shame in publishing results that aren't correct as long as you're honest about it. Some early-stage, low-power studies are going to randomly show results that don't reproduce, and that's also fine. Suppressing these results would hurt progress just as much as making the opposite error.