Rich Ulrich wrote:
>
> NIH published this draft regulation concerning research.
> Comments are being solicited.
>
> For the research that I know of, this seems more-than-a-little
> bit dumb. Even for the biology which is not too complicated,
> I think of serious problems arising (Needleman's lead research)
> after outsiders were allowed controlled access -- despite there
> being strong oversight while those issues were debated. Freer
> access seems scary.
Can you expand on this? Are we talking about privacy issues,
intellectual property issues, limitation of participation to an approved
in-group, or what?
I have to admit that my own first reaction is that the idea of
important decisions being based on conclusions drawn from data that is
not available to other researchers ("but trust me, the data really does
exist and I analyzed it perfectly, and the statistical technique I used
is never going to be supplanted by a better alternative") is much more
scary.
-Robert Dawson
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