ABSTRACT
This chapter takes the form of a text for a one-act play. The play is focused around the topic of experimental replication in science. One reason for choosing this topic is that both scientists and sociologists draw upon the notion of ‘replication’ in characterizing their own actions. Consequently, a discussion of replication in science can lead quickly to an examination of replication in sociology and, thereby, to the more general topic of reflexivity (Ashmore, 1983). As discourse about replication becomes selfreferential, it creates interpretative difficulties. The essential problem is that self-referential discourse on the topic of replication tends to generate paradoxes, to become self-contradictory or selfrefuting.
