I believe this approaches some of the ideas put forward for the forerunner of UNESCO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_on_Intellectual_Coo

I believe this approaches some of the ideas put forward for the forerunner of UNESCO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_on_Intellectual_Cooperation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_on_Int... Personally, I dislike idea, as competition can be a powerful motivator in science. I think three things would go a long way to improving the current situation: (1) more rigorous peer review, perhaps even paid reviews or something like bug bounties, to incentivise scrutiny; (2) the normalisation of replication; and (3) publication of negative results, so the community can quicky identify if something is not replicating.