[Rocky]

In addition there is currently a push to give researchers a greater incentive to publish their data by making scientific datasets citable contributions to the scholarly record and with associated journals such as GigaScience and Earth System Science Data.

Do you suppose that they can persuade Michael Mann or the University of Virginia to release the data behind the famous global warming hockey stick?

[Let_It_Be_So]

Not as long as they (Mann, et.al.) are guided more by political considerations to further the aims driven by their ideology than they are by any ethical considerations underlying their scientific endeavors.

Besides, didn’t they conveniently “lose” a portion of their raw data? “OOPS! Sorry about that. Trust us, the data we lost just backed up our conclusions anyway”