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Reproducibility does not necessarily mean that other people should be able to reproduce the results in question (which would depend upon them knowing the relevant information in the first place) - but that an experiment can be replicated.

I would agree that publishing results is better for several reasons (ethics, pragmatism, probably more thorough evaluation, etc.), but the definition doesn't really deal with the public at all.

TLDR; Reproducibility != public reproducibility.