Another reason for doing this is that if the people doing replication also do original research then calling out someone’s work as bad incentivizes them to sabotage your work when they inevitably review your papers.
You can avoid that to some extent by having replication and original work be separate specialities - and making sure that replication gets prestige so good people do it.
You can avoid that to some extent by having replication and original work be separate specialities - and making sure that replication gets prestige so good people do it.