And more on the subject of sausage-making, the NSF program director who funded Dias (nsf.gov/awardsearch/sho… ($485K) and nsf.gov/awardsearch/sho… ($794K)) gave another $98K to fund a conference on scientific reproducibility (nsf.gov/awardsearch/sho…) and placed himself as a panel moderator for the Reproducibility and Integrity in Natural Sciences Discussion Panel (pqi.org/reproducibility…). That's how it's done.