[Vince Ferrer]

I am in IT, and it doesn't surprise me. In fact I wrote an email to Chanel Rion of OAN if she would ask Fauchi to release the code. This is exactly what I would expect. Academics, even in computer fields, are crap coders. What is described is probably the norm of any simulation written in academia. Never ever be impressed by an academic who has writted code.

This is also why climate scientists like Michael Mann will never realease their source code. Mann was involved in a lawsuit in Canada where the source code became part of the discovery. He refused to give the court the code. The court ruled against him and he lost the lawsuit.

[thoughtomator]

I already knew that academics were crap coders; this experience has taught me that they know nothing about preserving integrity or meaning of data. Some of the metrics I see are beyond stupid in the way they are constructed.

[PapaBear3625]

I am in IT, and it doesn't surprise me. In fact I wrote an email to Chanel Rion of OAN if she would ask Fauchi to release the code. This is exactly what I would expect. Academics, even in computer fields, are crap coders. What is described is probably the norm of any simulation written in academia. Never ever be impressed by an academic who has writted code.

Software in academia is written by students, under the direction of professors, neither of which have experienced the discipline of working in a professional environment where there are costs and penalties for sloppiness and unprofessional behavior.