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> In software it's common to value independent verification - e.g. code review. Someone who is only focused on writing new code instead of careful testing, refactoring, or peer review is widely viewed as a shitty developer by their peers.

That is good practice

It is rare, not common. Managers and funders pay for features

Unreliable insecure software sells very well, so making reliable secure software is a "waste of money", generally

Actually yes you're 100% right, I phrased that badly

> Presumably, there's a step in this process where money incentivizes the opposite of my suggestion, and I'm not familiar with the process to know which.

> Is it the university itself which will be starved of resources if it's not pumping out novel (yet unreproducible) research?

Researchers apply for grants to fund their research, the university is generally not paying for it and instead they receive a cut of the grant money if it is awarded (IE. The grant covers the costs to the university for providing the facilities to do the research). If a researcher could get funding to reproduce a result then they could absolutely do it, but that's not what funds are usually being handed out for.

Hmm I see. So the grant makers are more of a problem here. And what are their incentives to fund ~bad research?

Universities are not really motivated to slow down the research careers of their employees, on the contrary. They are very much interested in their employees making novel, highly cited publications and bringing in grants that those publications can lead to.