Nah, I don't actually care. I grew up not trusting anyone or anything, I just know that the words replication crisis make for a great headline.

I don't disagree about the incentives for academic work being heavily perverted by the current climate, however I have yet to see anyone propose a fix that will actually be adopted by anyone but idealists. Just like open source software vs. M$ and Apple, you have true believers, and then people that are just there to make money. At the end of the day, eating is more important that holding to your ideals.

I thought there was a follow up study on the "replication crisis" and when the follow up (people trying to replicate the studies) actually get in communication with the original study authors the replication failure rate went down to 10%. Still not great, but better.

From my pedestrian/bystander understanding, journals want the most succinct article to publish, so a lot of prerequisites or best practices that exist at one university or within one discipline are left out of the publication, with the understanding that they are known. When someone educated slightly differently follows up, they don't get the same result because, from the beginning, they didn't do the same experiment.