You are never ever going to get the scientists on board with that. Its a lot easier to publish a simple correlation study, than it is to gather and good set of

You are never ever going to get the scientists on board with that. Its a lot easier to publish a simple correlation study, than it is to gather and good set of scientific data. The way we evaluate and fund science would have to change fundamentally before sharing data openly wouldn't be carrier suicide. Another point is that such datasets can not always be shared legally.