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It's not really feasible for most research (although there are plenty of needed improvements along these lines). Big physics projects are unusual in that they are enormous undertakings of 100s or 1000s of PhDs, and few or no other experiments will take data that can cross-check the results. (For instance, no other machine will produce the conditions at the LHC for several decades at least, which is why they go to the fantastic expense of building two completely separate general purpose detectors.) Devoting ~5 full-time PhDs for the sake of super-duper methodological rigor is doable for LIGO, but not for smaller experiments.