One problem is that often the data is highly valued -- the team may have spent years building it.
That was clearly not the case with the flawed paper this OP is concerning itself with. So, not a valid excuse in this case.
At any rate, the team should learn to write papers as they build up the data set. That way they always have a little more data than anyone else working with it. Because without release of the data on which a given paper is based, there's no way to know if the paper is actually valid.
That was clearly not the case with the flawed paper this OP is concerning itself with. So, not a valid excuse in this case.
At any rate, the team should learn to write papers as they build up the data set. That way they always have a little more data than anyone else working with it. Because without release of the data on which a given paper is based, there's no way to know if the paper is actually valid.