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My field has less of a "You publish first or you're not interesting" culture than many others, and part of what that is is recognizing that estimating an effect in a different population, with different underlying variables, is, itself, an interesting result all its own.

Tim Lash, the editor of Epidemiology, has some particularly cogent thoughts about replication, including some criticisms of what is rapidly becoming a "one size fits all" approach.