The world needs an academic fraud Jubilee. We could probably design a cryptographic protocol where you can submit a paper for retraction if and only if all othe

The world needs an academic fraud Jubilee. We could probably design a cryptographic protocol where you can submit a paper for retraction if and only if all other papers above a threshold are also retracted. A kind of pre-commitment hash for a multi party prisoners dilemma. Reality is, the way bureaucracies work is the only way to survive in it is to become compromised so that all the other compromised people in it can trust you. From what I can tell from government, there's an informal initiation stage, where you are pressured to commit a fraud, where it shows you can "play ball," and then you are in the fold. An academic fraud jubilee would free a lot of people to do real work. It sounds crazy, but not nearly as crazy as what would have had to occur to create the replication crisis.