Not really, the fact that it's not published is that they're afraid someone else will read it do the research again, submit it somewhere else, and get it publis

Not really, the fact that it's not published is that they're afraid someone else will read it do the research again, submit it somewhere else, and get it published faster, at which point reviewers for $Journal_With_Actual_Impact_Factor will simply state "doesn't this replicate the recent findings? Rejected" Which is why rosalind sat on her crystallographies, hoping to figure it out herself. And why the Wellcome Trust requires academics publish all data within 6 months of collection in such ironclad language that even Elvisier has to honor it: https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/agreements/elsevier-agreement-with-the-wellcome-trust https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/agre...