Please ask her to keep working on the problem and keep fighting the good fight. I think it's a political problem. If research grants were only given out if all

Please ask her to keep working on the problem and keep fighting the good fight. I think it's a political problem. If research grants were only given out if all data was made available (and while we're at it open source all the code produced) we'd be a huge step further down the right path. There is very, very strong resistance to these sort of ideas. The idealist in me likes to think that there shouldn't be much resistance after all scientists should be happy if their results get double checked (for free!). I can only assume that a lot of people are very afraid of having their data double checked (or possibly never had data in the first place). Additionally access to data is a competitive advantage as it's often hard to generate.