Well it is already painfully visible that "checks & balances plus peer review" is barely managing to hold science together. Research has already been thoroughly gamed on a systemic level. Scientific funding and the whole "publish and perish" culture pretty much promotes bullshit over real research nowadays. And while solutions are easy to name (increase rigor for statistical significance, publish negative results, make scientist pre-publish description of planned data analysis before collecting data, etc.) they are almost impossible to implement, as everyone inside the system is trapped by the incentive structures that drive the whole thing.
Exactly, but if you are a member of the cult you can't admit this.
"the checks & balances plus the peer review system for worldwide recognised published research kill and destroy bullshitters"
if only this was true!!
A very high percentage of memoirs, thesis and research papers that contain source code doesn't compile, run or work as expected.
Peer review doesn't work in science because nobody cares to review unknown or lesser known authors.
In startup world, they get also eliminated quite rapidly as they will just fail. Success of any startups is not to raise funds but to get customers who will pay for value and for that bullshitters cannot trick the system.