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[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:31 AM 19/08/2008, Roger Clarke wrote:
>There's no incentive for *that*.
>
>There's a positive *dis*incentive, because obscure text looks more
>impressive, even to reviewers - maybe even *especially* to reviewers
>- or maybe *only* to reviewers, because on average hardly anyone else
>reads it.
>
>(I wish I could finish this with a grin, but unfortunately I'm serious).

I read an article on some website this week [op-ed in the Age 
perhaps?] by a medical researcher bemoaning the fact that research so 
often is done merely to get papers published [counts, not results = 
grants to keep programs going!]. Forty years between some discoveries 
and implementation. Examples given were the use of aspirin to reduce 
heart attack, relationship of smoking to lung disease, and a couple 
others. The author seemed disenchanted with the whole thing as a result.

Jan



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Writing Lesson #54:
Learn to love revision. Think of it as polishing the silver for 
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