Jay Bhattacharya

And this happens in field after field after field, neurosciences and cancer biology and psychology.

As a result, drug manufacturers, developers, actually, they do their own private replication efforts because they don't trust the literature.

This is a disaster.

You're absolutely right.

You can't replicate every single paper.

That's hundreds of thousands of millions of ideas, right?

I also don't want the government to decide which ideas ought to be replicated.

I mean, frankly, as a conservative, that makes me really queasy.

What you have to do is you have to crowdsource

Have the scientific community identify what are the key ideas that need replication.

If they turn out to be true, then they would send science one way.

If it turned out to be false, it would send science another way, right?

And then you do that by essentially using the NIH, the normal process of the NIH.

Seek grants, applications from the scientific community to do replication.

And that has a big effect on essentially creating a cadre of researchers who are honored by the scientific community.

Because if I give them NIH grants, then that's a marker of scientific success, right?

Now that's really hard to do.

If you are great at replication work, it's really hard to make a career out of it.

I'm a replicator.

Right.