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The title of this is very misleading. > Critics say the rule will exclude some of the most important research from consideration simply because it does not rel
by tomohawk 7y ago
The title of this is very misleading.
> Critics say the rule will exclude some of the most important research from consideration simply because it does not rely on data that can be shared publicly.
Is it really too much to ask that when a government regulator makes a rule, the science behind it be publicly available? Since when is transparency bad when formulating public policy?
- tzs 7y agoThe data behind studies involving the effects of things on humans is not always publicly available because making it so would violate the privacy of the subjects. That doesn't prevent the studies from being scientifically useful. They can still publicly include summaries of the data sufficient to allow others to tell if the study was well designed, to tell if their statistical analysis was reasonable, and so on. It also doesn't prevent others from attempting to replicate the studies using other groups of test subjects.