[hwillis]

You are wrong. The kid GREW FUNGUS IN ARTIFICIAL LUNGS using a sterile field made out of a plastic bin with dish gloves cut into it. He didn't need medical data. Anyone could have done this- anyone with the intelligence and creativity that this kid has.

[dekhn]

is it possible you're overstating what the kid did a bit here? The history of sterile fields shows that even great scientists take decades to debug contamination that causes false positives and negatives. ASn experiment like this can be easily thrown off by any number of variables that weren't carefully controlled for.

[amelius]

You need medical data if you want to validate your results for a real medical disorder.

Fabrication of data is not very useful if you have to gather data for validation anyway.