Some of the blame should rest with researchers, and referees of their work. I agree with the authors here, but I also think it's a poor choice to base your rese

Some of the blame should rest with researchers, and referees of their work. I agree with the authors here, but I also think it's a poor choice to base your research on a closed model, and for reviewers not to accept research that has a dependency like this. How did it become standard academic practice to work with something like this that you cannot interrogate.