It would be better to entirely leave the term 'MBA' out of it, because it has nothing to do with the discussion. Governments spending bazillions just want some

It would be better to entirely leave the term 'MBA' out of it, because it has nothing to do with the discussion. Governments spending bazillions just want some measure of accountability and that's it. Aside from the more existential issues you've noted ... there probably a host of things that could be improved. One thing may be the recognition that a lot of science just isn't worth repeating at all. To simply 'dial back the faith' we have any in any single experiment, and assume that every first pass is fuzzy. I don't think anyone is accusing anyone of fraud here, this is not a problem of 'a few bad apples' - it's more of a broad systematic issue of 'looking for positive results'. Perhaps some opportunities lie in getting more behind null hypothesis stuff as being 'respectable'.