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I know this is stating the obvious, but the next stage after this is for people to regard "science" as what's in the database rather than what's in the journals. Otherwise there's still publication bias (unless people like writing up boring results and journals like publishing them)
Well, the database wouldn't contain any results. What it does though is reduce the importance of published claims that have a large number of non-published (probably failed) attempts at showing the same effect.
Ideally you want the literature review section of a paper to include a mention of all these related but unpublished experiments, not just other published results.