Love this.

[csaetre@techhub.social]

Love this.
A peer reviewed blank page was published in 1974, without revision.

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block” by Dennis Upper.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a

Credit: Found this gem via ‘stephenknowstuff’ on another platform
#writersblock #academicchatter

[csaetre@techhub.social]

2/2 Don’t skip the footnote and comments.

“COMMENTS BY REVIEWER A:

I have studied this manuscript very carefully with lemon juice and X-rays and have not detected a single flaw in either design or writing style. I suggest it be
published without revision. Clearly it is the most concise manuscript I have ever seen …”

#writersblock #funny #brevity

[riggbeck@mastodon.social]

@csaetre

Why is there no such thing as a plumber's block?

[markhburton@mstdn.social]

@csaetre
Haha, I'd forgotten about this one. It was also an ironic comment on attempts to introduce the autonomous human actor into environmentally determinist behaviour analysis. (Which is where I was in 1974 as a Skinnerian behaviourist - so we can all change!)

[irina@wandering.shop]

@csaetre Applied Behavior Analysis? As in ABA, the thing you please don't do to autistic children because it's abusive conversion therapy?

[csaetre@techhub.social]

@riggbeck
Hypothesis: Because the _plumbers of freedom_(*) are tenacious?

*Cory Doctorow