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This sounds like there is currently a mechanism for winnowing the crap, but we currently don't really have this either.

On the contrary, because researchers are driven to publish publish publish, they often reheat the same paper over and over again with minor modifications, or just go conference shopping until they get an acceptance.

With less publishing pressure, qualitu would go up automatically.

Watson and Crick published papers only every couple years. This wouldn't work today at all.

Science needs to go back to publishing when you habe something to say, not just to fullfill your quota.