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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002 94(10):712-713; doi:10.1093/jnci/94.10.712
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 10, 712-713, May 15, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

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When Scientists Don’t Share: Is Secrecy a Necessary Evil?

Steve Benowitz

Science has a secrecy problem, and it may be escalating. More and more genetics researchers are refusing to share results, reagents, and other materials with colleagues, a recent survey has found. At the same time, advisory and funding organizations are grappling with the best way to ensure that the appropriate data are made available to other researchers.

Those are some of the messages from a study led by David Blumenthal, M.D., chief of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleague Eric Campbell, Ph.D., instructor of health policy there. They examined the data-sharing habits of 1,240 geneticists and 600 other life scientists from universities that receive the most funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Reporting in January in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Blumenthal and Campbell found that 84% of the geneticists said they had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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