Ah, then I completely misunderstood you. Yeah I'm not in favor of outright withholding information. However, what I think happened here is that they weren't ab

Ah, then I completely misunderstood you. Yeah I'm not in favor of outright withholding information. However, what I think happened here is that they weren't able to work on it for a while, and if say, they didn't feel confident in their findings back in 1999 and only got around to being able to look at it again in 2017, it would make sense that their intent wasn't to gatekeep, it had just become one of those "we'll get around to testing it one day" type of projects everyone has. In this case it just potentially was a pretty massive thing to put off.