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by c3t0 3806 days ago
There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites.”

So we should consider Francis Collins & James Watson "research parasites"?

Without their own analysis of other researcher's data the double helix would not have been discovered.

You cannot control information/data just because you gathered it. Pick up your marbles because you do not like what your pears concluded?

Science is based on reproducibility and peer review.

Peer review without full access to data is a fallacy.

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Francis Crick.
Freudian slip.

Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins