If the incentive is to get the grant and not to actually produce replicable studies, then what impact would you expect this to have? If the inputs are mostly

If the incentive is to get the grant and not to actually produce replicable studies, then what impact would you expect this to have? If the inputs are mostly garbage, then all this might do is confirm what we already know. I wonder if you'd be better off having a two-phase grant mechanism. One smaller payment for the research, and a second larger payment if it is replicable. Actually incentivize the "market" to produce good work. As it is, this incentive doesn't actually exist.