"Grabbing someone else's numbers and running analyses on them should no longer be acceptable in political science..."

It sounds as though this statement applies to analysts who thoughtlessly use canned data, and I could not agree more with the sentiment when framed that way.  But insofar as people initially took this statement to apply to revisiting past research, I'd like to toss in: It's really too bad that the discipline appears to have abandoned attempts to create publishing venues for scholars who engage in verification/replication work.

Yours,
Steve Voss
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Univ. of Kentucky
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