Many researchers not compliant with published data sharing statement (2022)

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Many scientists think of their data as proprietary, and want to prevent other researchers from getting it and publishing on it. This is at odds with any lip service they may pay to open science, and, often, at odds with the explicit requirements of their funders. As noted in this article, they often deny reasonable requests for data, or just ignore the requests altogether. Of course, everybody wants access to other people's data.

Academia is full of things you "should" like data sharing, preregistrations, and all kinds of statements about honesty. However, there is almost no incentive provided for such actions and I wonder how effective the measures are in the first place. It’s like running a company by metrics only. It’s great for management but stifles innovation. At the same time, more rules do not stop truly malicious actors, they will find a workaround anyway.

Agreed 100%. People in the outside world somehow think academia is a place of pure hearts with nothing but good intentions.

Here is the truth: Look at the incentives and I tell you how people will behave. On an individual level, sharing data has great costs and zero (nothing, nada, zilch, null) benefits. All appeals to the common good change nothing if optimising for an academic career means ignoring these very appeals.

commentary is rendered useless by equally, but opposite, extreme sentiment; no spectrum of ideas and actions presented, no evidence even simple cases, no outside sources..

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If you ever saw something that makes you disagree, please say so.

Dismissing people's personal experiences on the bases of "citation needed" is combative and useless.

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