No, the same time will be spent. You can't flag "this scientist is honest, never reproduce anything from him anymore". He can turn dishonest the next day you d

No, the same time will be spent. You can't flag "this scientist is honest, never reproduce anything from him anymore". He can turn dishonest the next day you do this. If there are more dishonest scientists, we'll just find more useless papers. But the time to reproduce will be the same.