The influence of academicians in our society is underestimated; through their constant flow of publications they establish the administrative record on issues of public policy. Articles in the press come and go but journals are around forever.
Academicians teach future Presidents, Members of Congress, entrepreneurs, judges and their staff as well as future academicians, reporters and other opinion leaders. That said, the administrative record established by academicians could, in some instances, lack completeness. If the resultant void is be closed it is the responsibility of practitioners to do so.
Nonetheless,
Academicians survive because they publish.
Practitioners survive because they do not publish.
Here is an example of waiting nearly forty years to make a point that could and should have been made decades ago.
