Disclaimer: I'm not an academic. I cannot possibly speak to the possible benefits and implications of this from an academic point of view. Like there might only

Disclaimer: I'm not an academic. I cannot possibly speak to the possible benefits and implications of this from an academic point of view. Like there might only be downside to doing this. I don't know and don't pretend to know. As an outsider looking in, many academic fields seem to have a reproducibility crisis. Many psychological studies, for example, cannot be reproduced yet they continue to be cited. I personally feel like every academic paper should be reproducible. I should be able to email you the study and you should get the same results. Obviously clinical trials may vary (and thus the important of statistical significance) but the real problem is data and models. If I, as someone reading your study, don't have your data, how can it possibly be reproduced? If I gather my own data will I get completely different results? If I'm solely relying on what details you give, how do I know you haven't made a fatal assumption or even just buggy code with your model? I personally feel like a condition of all Federal funding should be that the data and any code should be made freely available. So I support the idea of releasing it and that releasing something messy is better than releasing nothing but I can't speak to your individual circumstances.