Which is a great idea if we ignore all other issues in academia, e.g. pressure to publish etc. Taking such a hard-line stance I fear will just yield much less science being done.

> much less science being done

This isn't obviously a bad thing, in the context of a belief that most results are misleading or wrong.

Let's do a less science then, but rigorous and throrough. Or find more funding.

But surely let's have a "hard-line stance" on not drowning in BS?

And where will the money come from for this second study? What about a third? Fourth?

We live in a money-dependent world. We cannot go without it.