The university’s leaked e-mails imply a concerted effort to avoid data sharing, which both violates the best practice defined in NERC policy and prevents verification of the results obtained by the unit. Science relies upon open analysis of data and methods, and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has a clear data-sharing policy that expects scientists “to cooperate in validating and publishing in their entirety”. But you do not mention the reason - that the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has systematically tried to avoid revealing data and code. ![]() Your Editorial (Nature 462, 545 2009) castigates “denialists” for making “endless, time-consuming demands for information under the US and UK Freedom of Information Acts”. ![]() David Bell of the University of Nottingham’s letter reads as follows:Ĭlimate e-mails: lack of data sharing is a real concern A Nature reader has run the gauntlet at Nature, who published a criticism of their anti-FOI editorial.
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