So long scrutiny? More than half public data-sets provided with scientific papers are incomplete – ScienceBlog.com
Researchers have found more than half of the public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, which prevents reproducibility tests and follow-up studies. However, slight improvements to research practices could make a big difference. Lead researcher Dr Dominique Roche from The Australian National University (ANU) said many peer-reviewed biological journals now require authors to publicly …

  1. This is nothing new.

    Long before it became politicized, climate science was rife with doctored datasets, incomplete datasets and accusations of cherrypicking that really couldn't be refuted.

    The very first outside-the-core group critique of climate science was when Ross McKittrick tried to reproduce the hockey stick graph from Mann, could not do so from the data files presented, and asked for assistance.

    I had a similar direct experience in 1998-1999. We could get none of the IPCC models to run with the data sets provided, following the instructions with the model.

    With work, we got one to run with the provided data. We then changed one variable (solar instellation) to see what would change…and got results that said the sun could go out and the oceans would boil.

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