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Re:Open access: The true cost of science publishing by dnautics on Sunday October 13, 2013 @06:00PM (#6544308)
this sort of open data the poster one above suggested will always be problematic because the temptation will be to do meta-studies where you cross-compare datasets from experiments that 'look alike' while stripping context. It plays to a 'science is objective' fetishism, when in reality context is always subjective and context matters, deeply.

Presenting data as separate units in a publication serves the purpose of requiring actual cogitation and consideration before using the data. In a sense, all data are proprietary, and attempts to de-proprietarization of it is a mistaken endeavor. This is not to say that we shouldn't try to reproduce results, but we should be careful to acknowledge that the context is always different.

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