Felipe Romero (University of Groningen)
The social structures that govern scientists' work undermine replication and therefore self-correction. How can we intervene in such structures to make science more replicable? To address this question, I introduce the notion of "self-corrective labor schemes" —ways of organizing replication efforts in the scientific community. I propose a novel scheme, which I call the professional scheme. This scheme recommends creating a distinct reward system for scientists whose primary function is to do confirmation/replication labor. I show the advantages of the professional scheme over extant scheme proposals and how different parties involved in the research process should support it.
