I don't think anyone is advocating for health decisions to be based off shoddy-half baked research--some might say that is the current situation. Rather, if it

I don't think anyone is advocating for health decisions to be based off shoddy-half baked research--some might say that is the current situation. Rather, if it takes a year from experiment completion to publication and the data is embargoed for all that time--that replication, criticism, and independent confirmation of the work is delayed for at least a year. Since this is usually on the critical path to implementing a discovery in a therapy--this publication delay does real harm to the advancement of healthcare and doesn't seem to provide a commensurate benefit in paper quality.