It's somewhat irrelevant to this thread because academic CS doesn't have a quality problem on the scale that other fields do, and the NSF cuts aren't directly m

It's somewhat irrelevant to this thread because academic CS doesn't have a quality problem on the scale that other fields do, and the NSF cuts aren't directly motivated by paper quality anyway (you could argue the stated motivation traces to the same root causes). But, "replication crisis" is a misnomer. The problem isn't replication, not really. A better name would be the scientific validity crisis. This comes up in every HN discussion of science and academia so I wrote a full explanation of why here: https://blog.plan99.net/replication-studies-cant-fix-science-0e195234a280 https://blog.plan99.net/replication-studies-cant-fix-science... ... but tl;dr many papers that are scientifically invalid will replicate just fine. Even if academics suddenly started directing funding to replication studies on a huge scale, nothing would change and there would be no surge in trust in science.