The amount of money for an NIH R01 non-modular budget hasn't changed since 1999. Which means due to inflation, the average "gold standard" grant budget covers half as much as it used to, roughly.
Wherein are you going to fund mandatory replication studies - some of which are massive cohort studies, so you're going to need a whole new population cohort - let alone the...citation police...to review every citation not just for its existence, but for its content.
Wherein are you going to fund mandatory replication studies - some of which are massive cohort studies, so you're going to need a whole new population cohort - let alone the...citation police...to review every citation not just for its existence, but for its content.