Let’s pay referees to flag mistakes

Intriguing suggestion, but still treating the symptoms instead of addressing systemic conditions. Plus, the assumption that "Given competition for jobs and the resulting pressure to publish, untenured academics have even more incentive to cut corners and skimp on their reference-checking than their tenured colleagues" strikes me as unwarranted. My intuition is that tenured academics have just as much incentive to "cut corners" and are under just as much pressure to publish, given promotion conditions. Anecdotally, I know many untenured faculty who are "pedantic" about their documentation practices, just as I know tenured faculty who could stand to be more so. Perhaps the author knows of a study that tracks the "fact-checking" (specifically, documentation) practices and behaviours of tenured vs. untenured faculty, in which case I would appreciate the pointer (reference). Thank you!