Comment by kerkeslager

One big problem is that journals agree to publish studies after they are completed, which means that publication in prestigious journals is based on the novelty of the result rather than on the validity of the study/experiment. It's an absolute fundamental of science that you go into it with an open mind, admitting that you do not know what the result will be. A good study/experiment is not one which produces an interesting result, it's one which is properly designed to answer the question it's asking. Evaluating the quality of studies/experiments based on their results is an anti-scientific practice which should be excised like the cancerous tumor it is. The best way to do that is to accept and commit to publish studies/experiments based solely on their design, before the experiment/study has actually been performed.