Also, not just the paper itself. You better make all the data generated during the study available too. That way it can be used to verify the validity of the conclusions, and also used for other studies.
This is so important. It’s astounishing how often I come across papers with results that are not reproducable because they either don’t publish their code or their data sets or neither. These are effectively useless.
Even more papers where the authors p-hacked the data toward a positive result, or made grandiose conclusions that the data barely suggests, or, specifically in biology, which I like to read, the sample range was so flawed (i.e. too small, bias based on gender, ethnicity, preexisting conditions and life factors, all the subjects are cousins, etc) that it’s completely invalid and any result is way more likely to be due to the nonrandom selection of subjects. These things are how we get shitty invalid papers like that one that linked vaccination to autism, or literally any paper that tries linking race/ethnicity to stuff like crime rate or lack of empathy (I’ve not seen a single paper in that vein that didn’t get absolutely trashed on peer review, and is honestly just written as an excuse to be racist).
How is this even debatable? We paid for it, we deserve to see it.
This is beyond overdue. The public has a right to information it has funded. While I would of course prefer the “information wants to be free” view when it comes to science, this is a logical baseline.
How many cutouts will there be for private industry to get patent rights on stuff that comes out of publicly funded research though?
I’m very curious to hear if anyone disagrees with this and believes they’re not a dickhead
hopefully next is public systems go open source \ agpl
Holy shit isn’t that obvious?
