>Greater availability of data and code makes for better science. Lack of availability of data and code should be an immediate disqualifier from publication for

>Greater availability of data and code makes for better science. Lack of availability of data and code should be an immediate disqualifier from publication for research. In any field. There is no substantial difference between withholding source code or data and withholding experimental procedures or list of materials tested. I can only think that the people who withhold such things are either actively malicious or are completely ignorant of the stupendous danger of cutting corners in science. Given the history we have to work with, it's pretty clear that the distance from cutting a corner in a way that seems harmless to the deaths of millions of people is very short. This is not something people should trifle with.