[wbl]

The harmful action being getting info that will be published in Cell or Nature six months early?

[cscurmudgeon]

So two questions (not to you, but the general audience):

1. Are you ok if some entity steals your research and publishes it under their name in a venue under their name before you publish it?

2. Are you okay if the entity stealing the research is not similarly liberal with their own research on the same subject?

[masnao]

if the research was published published ongoing, like open source software, it would not be aproblem.

the problem only exists because people want to 1) hold data hostage for money and power 2) only publish success.

[cscurmudgeon]

> if the research was published published ongoing

Are you aware that there are protocols in medical research against this?

Publishing research in an ongoing basis will taint the results (placebo effects etc).

There are blackout periods etc. just to make sure that the analysis is valid and not tainted.

Also a lot of research has lag time. Experiments can take a lot of time.

There is also a hidden assumption China is hacking for the greater good.

[masnao]

you're talking about human medical trials. that's a very low percentage of research

[defen]

Even if software is open source, you can't steal it and claim you wrote it yourself.