The article presents the editor's comments on the keynote address of Lee Shulman at the 2013 ISSOTL conference. He discusses the speech's message that was allegedly reduced to the slogan "generalizations decay." He describes Shulman's style as neo-rabbinical when he was skeptical about a study on messy and neat desks. He was critical of a Harvard dissertation that was an ethnographic, qualitative study which used double-blind, controlled experiments.