Most scholars work on tiny things that are not relatively relatively important. That's worse than the 15,000 hours on revealing. I once heard from a very prominent scholar that you could delete half of her CV and you would lose nothing. And it all just didn't matter. So there should be something for the people who want to swing for the fences or who want everything that they try to be worthwhile whether it works or not.
Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through the process. The ones without errors often fail to replicate. One approach to improve the process is better incentives. But Mastroianni argues that peer review isn't fixable. It's a failed experiment. Listen as he makes the case to EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a new approach to science and academic research.