Publishing reproducible research would disincentivize fraud by providing a clear way to expose fraud, and could tend to benefit other researchers in the field, by effectively sharing specific methods as well as results.

Incentivizing reproducibility would be hard as a grassroots effort, but would be enforcible if it were tied to funding. Even if only a small percentage of published studies were reproduced, and only a small percentage of them were found to be fraudulent, the disincentive for fraud would be present. We do not need more Andrew Wakefields.

> Effective checks would basically mean science costs 2x as much.

By that logic, we would need to enforce speed limits by having one police cruiser following every driver.