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A Dearth of Replications

Th’ expense of paper in a wasteful game
Is just inaction; and, till repeated, work
Is perjured, murd’rous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, full of murk;
Printed no sooner but distrusted straight,
Past reason shunted; and, no sooner read
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait
On purpose laid to keep researchers fed;
Vast in results; but replication? No,
Fed, feeding, and in quest to feed, extreme;
A bliss in proof; unproved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a scheme.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun submissions that lead men to this hell.

Margaret Soltan, August 14, 2014 9:16AM
Posted in: hoax, poem

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3 Responses to “A Dearth of Replications”

  1. Greg Says:

    129, nicely redone, not replicated!

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Thanks.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Bernard Carroll writes:

    This poem and your link sent me to do a quick citation analysis of the category Educational Theory. In the Web of Science data base there are over 26,000 entries and of those more than half have been cited once or less. Over 40% have never been cited, much less replicated. I am not singling out educational theorists – most fields will look just the same.

    Much of what goes on in academia is captured by the saying, the name of the game is to keep the game going. Dwight Eisenhower nailed it in his farewell speech in 1961: “… the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity…”

    http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/01/academic-industrial-complex.html

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