Many scientists think of their data as proprietary, and want to prevent other researchers from getting it and publishing on it. This is at odds with any lip ser

Many scientists think of their data as proprietary, and want to prevent other researchers from getting it and publishing on it. This is at odds with any lip service they may pay to open science, and, often, at odds with the explicit requirements of their funders. As noted in this article, they often deny reasonable requests for data, or just ignore the requests altogether. Of course, everybody wants access to other people's data.