> Doing otherwise is wildly inefficient I hate to break it to you but irrespective of a pursuit for efficient progress in science, the majority of papers reinv

> Doing otherwise is wildly inefficient I hate to break it to you but irrespective of a pursuit for efficient progress in science, the majority of papers reinvent things unencumbered by an obligation to locate the work in a broader body - in every paper I've been on, citations are post-hoc. And everyone I know works the same way - build a thing suited to your needs, craft the sales pitch for the reviewers (including how you're different from competitors), sprinkle citations for good measure. Clearly I don't think this is bad.