Why Research Should Be 'Hacked'
http://j.mp/Kd3ryd (Science Daily)
"Australian researchers are calling for the open sharing of clinical
trial data in the medical research community, saying it would be
instrumental in eliminating bottlenecks and duplication, and lead to
faster and more trustworthy evidence for many of our most pressing
health problems. Moreover, hackers should be role models for freeing
up access to the "source code" of clinical trials -- patient-level
data -- the researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW)
argue in a commentary published in the journal Science Translational
Medicine. Hackers revolutionised the software industry by countering
the economic and cultural motivations that drove closed source
software and disengagement from user needs."
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--Lauren--
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