From an earlier comment: I have long maintained that the NIH should set aside 20% of its budget to fund spot checking of the research output of the remaining 8

From an earlier comment: I have long maintained that the NIH should set aside 20% of its budget to fund spot checking of the research output of the remaining 80% of funded research. Even if this funding is only sufficient to review a handful of papers each year, it stands to have a transformative effect on the level of hype and p-hacking in many fields, and could nearly eliminate the rare cases of actual fraud. It would also improve the overall quality and reliability of the literature.