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If money is the problem, maybe money is the solution?

Like open a betting market for study replication. If no methodological errors are found and the study can be successfully replicated the authors get a percentage of the pool, replication effort is run by a red team that gets paid the same percentage of the pool regardless of outcome making their incentive to find bets that just attract a lot of bets.

This would incentivize scrutinizing big findings like the one in the OP where a failure would be big, but also act as a force for unearthing dark horse findings in journals off the beaten path where replication success would be big.




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