I really don’t know. One perspective is that, “knowledge generation wise,” the current system really does work from a long term perspective. Evolutionary press

I really don’t know. One perspective is that, “knowledge generation wise,” the current system really does work from a long term perspective. Evolutionary pressure keeps the good work alive while bad work dies. Like that [Top Institution] paper: if nobody else could reproduce it, then the ideas within it die because nobody can extend the work. But that comes at the heavy short term cost of good researchers getting duped into wasting time and bad researchers seeing incentives in lying. Which will make academia less attractive to the kind of people that ought to be there, dragging down the whole community.