"the field can successfully identify and remove bad/fraudulent lines of inquiry in a relatively short amount of time" It took 16 years and only happened due to

"the field can successfully identify and remove bad/fraudulent lines of inquiry in a relatively short amount of time" It took 16 years and only happened due to a couple of neuroscientists spotting a short selling opportunity, which allowed them to fund an investigation. Phrased differently, the field itself did not find this fraud. Outsiders did, when motivated by non-academic systems. "The process is working as intended, why burn it down?" The mis-allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars on the basis of a Photoshop, with the only outcome being that everyone involves says "no comment", is not by any measure the process working as intended.