The fear of being scooped is more a function of the "pubish or perish" model and the reward model than anything else. Half the times someone gets beaten to a p

The fear of being scooped is more a function of the "pubish or perish" model and the reward model than anything else. Half the times someone gets beaten to a publication, it's because they were not the only ones with the idea in the first place. The most interesting scientific problems people are trying to work on are not unique anyway. The effort should be on changing the reward model, rather than artificially create problems like scooping.