Over the past year I have skimmed through more than 2500 social science papers. I wrote a giant post about everything that's wrong with them and how to fix the process that generates them: fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/wha…

Some highlights below. Replication markets work well because determining whether a paper will replicate is easy. Yet scientists seem curiously incapable of performing this simple task. Anywhere you look, from authorship, to publication, to tenure committees, nobody seems capable of spotting bad papers.