I absolutely would if I could do it and still get funded. I'd love to share everything openly. Just pay my bills as I do it.
Currently, science is funded based on individual results. You can't blame folk for wanting to be promoted or to win tenure.
Currently, science is funded based on individual results. You can't blame folk for wanting to be promoted or to win tenure.
Yeah, there's a direct tension between the move over the past few decades towards very competitive grant funding (10% funding rates, short grant terms, much fewer long-term, large block grants for centers), and a goal of having everyone share everything altruistically. If you purposely set up science funding so that it encourages cutthroat competition, people are going to have to behave like cutthroat competitors, and those who try not to will (on average) lose to those who do.