From the end of the article: "... such as compelling researchers to share both data sets and the code for statistical models." This would be a welcome change.

From the end of the article: "... such as compelling researchers to share both data sets and the code for statistical models." This would be a welcome change. It seems very strange to me that it is not the accepted practice to make available any source code used in the analysis. It's an essential part of their methodology, and any bugs in that code could produce hard-to-detect flaws in their results (dropped data, rounding errors, etc). Just look at the work jgrahamc did on climate change analysis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128782.