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IMHO we should go beyond this. In biology and medicine, you need to spend a significant amount of money to catch errors, as you have to reproduce huge costly e
by nextos 2y ago
IMHO we should go beyond this. In biology and medicine, you need to spend a significant amount of money to catch errors, as you have to reproduce huge costly experiments. I think NIH, Wellcome and other funders should consider creating a reproducibility track where they give away grants to replicate recent key findings.
I think this would speed up research by simultaneously discouraging fraud and also by increasing credibility of legitimate findings. It would also be nice if top journals created a new category of article, Replication Study, for these big efforts to replicate a substantial finding.
For example, the initial CRISPR discovery took ages to get applied to DNA editing because initially nobody believed in that finding. We could be >5 years ahead with the right incentives.