Linking bottom-up demands and top-down policies can result in positive feedback loops – virtuous cycles that create beneficial self-sustaining norms, rather than perverse ones. For instance, the UK Reproducibility Network, formed by academics concerned about the replication crisis and represented by grassroots groups at universities, is now talking with those universities about ways to change their hiring practices to better reward openness and transparency.110 Such efforts can serve as an antidote to the ‘natural selection of bad science’ that we saw in the previous chapter. Rewarding
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