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I think the difference is between a ground-up or top-down approach. Maybe both are needed. My current stance is that while a top-down approach would work, there's very little chance of it happening. For one, government research funds have largely flat-lined in the last 20 years, and expecting them to take on more costs for managing peer review would likely exacerbate the problem. I also don't see the govt clamoring for additional administrative burden. I don't think replication has to be the only method (although I think it's probably the best). Opening the data to the public can do a lot to suss out bad practices or outright fraud, as we saw with the Ariely situation. The progress has been slow, for sure, but I think there is some. For example, there are now journals that specialize in publishing "non-surprising" results.