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It’s related because peer reviewers have the power to sink or float a paper based on its ability to reproduce, but they don’t currently. Thus there are not many

• explaininjs 3y ago
  An institution which fails to use a power is precisely equivalent to one that doesn’t hold that power at all. As for the last few, I’m basically just saying we should dismantle the current “journal” concept entirely (it stands only to benefit those who receive the fees it takes and those who derive self-worth from being published in a “prestigious” journal), and replace it with a system by which for any given scientifically testable hypothesis, a collection of many different reproduction attempts and their respective methodologies and results are immediately available all side-by-side. With that in place, no scientific result would derive any credibility from being “peer reviewed” or not, but rather from the quantity and diversity of reproduction attempts it has faced. This database should be free to query and free to insert into. Individual papers may support community comments to serve as the weak “peer review” we currently have, but at no point should these comments be considered anywhere near equivalent to a full reproduction attempt.