"Too meta": comic mocks meta-meta-meta-analysis recursion in academia
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-19
An xkcd-style comic roasts academic meta-recursion: meta-analyses always say "we searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane," which spawned meta-meta-analyses comparing meta-analysis methods. The author jokes about performing a meta-meta-meta-analysis whose Methods section just searches for that exact phrase — with the life goal of getting a paper rejected as "too meta."
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