It'd take something like encouraging through monetization the replication of papers / experiments, with completely transparent methods (i.e. a video archive, or such).
However i presuppose that we can also fix greed, payola (and other bribery), litigation of results that some don't like, and so on. I don't think those are solvable (in my lifetime, probably.)
So an alternative would be for a non-profit with large funding to open laboratories around the planet and run replication experiments; this would need to be their only purpose. You'd have to figure out how to convince people to do the thankless work of proving or disproving others' experiments, designs, and so on. Even if you somehow could assign prestige for being the hardest-nosed re-researcher in the program...
And even then, you'll still have people that believe outlandish, patently unbelievable things. You'll still be unable to be 100% sure that something is correct.
genewitch|5 months ago
However i presuppose that we can also fix greed, payola (and other bribery), litigation of results that some don't like, and so on. I don't think those are solvable (in my lifetime, probably.)
So an alternative would be for a non-profit with large funding to open laboratories around the planet and run replication experiments; this would need to be their only purpose. You'd have to figure out how to convince people to do the thankless work of proving or disproving others' experiments, designs, and so on. Even if you somehow could assign prestige for being the hardest-nosed re-researcher in the program...
And even then, you'll still have people that believe outlandish, patently unbelievable things. You'll still be unable to be 100% sure that something is correct.