I am arguing that the current funding structure encourages poor quality science. Right now it is better to pump out papers as quickly as possible rather than ta

I am arguing that the current funding structure encourages poor quality science. Right now it is better to pump out papers as quickly as possible rather than taking the time to check the data is not flawed. From a software perspective it is like paying developers by the number of lines of code delivered and telling them to not worry about bugs. Not an approach that is likely to deliver quality software. What we need in science is to find a way that people have the time and incentives to publish results that are as accurate as possible. Somewhat off topic I do wonder if we would get better software if we fired programmers if bugs were found. I suspect we would not get much code written, but the code that was written would be very high quality.