Journal Tet's Journal: About time too 1
The UK's Information Commissioner has ruled that research data must be made public. I have little sympathy for the likes of Keenan. But I have even less sympathy for so called scientists who refuse to make their data available for others to study. This isn't just about climate change, either, but about science in general. The recent spate of falsified results in Chinese and Korean papers should be ample evidence that data needs to be made public so that results can be independently verified. That's what science is all about.
Otherwise ... (Score:2)
... how do we know that stuff really falls at the same speed in a vacuum independent of its' weight, etc.?
We stand on the shoulders of our predecessors, but if they're liars, what ARE we looking at? (There was a sci-fi story about that - aliens deliberately falsifying some basic research over the last 3,000 years so that humans wouldn't make critical discoveries).