Idea #1: Bounties for fraud whistleblowers. As I argued last week, whistleblowing is undersupplied in science. To fix this, we should borrow an idea from the SEC and copy their popular bounty program.

Idea #2: Bounties for artifact detection in the social sciences. We recently learned that some troubling trends were caused by changes in how the data was collected. Let’s catch these issues sooner by creating bounties for the people who know where the data comes from.