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:But I have this question for Andy and the rest of the supporters of the 'public access to data' line: if it is the ''principle'' of public access to data that you are fighting for--and this is not some kind of publicity stunt, as many have suggested--then why are you picking on this one experiment, and not the ''tens of thousands'' of scientific papers that have been published just, say, in the last decade?  After all, Lenski's paper is no different than any scientific paper, in that is summarizes, but does not publish, the raw data on which it was based.  So shouldn't you be asking every scientist who has published a paper in which raw data has not been published to present that data?  Why just Lenski?  Aren't there potentially ''thousands'' of 'new insights' that could be produced from public scrutiny of this data?

:But I have this question for Andy and the rest of the supporters of the 'public access to data' line: if it is the ''principle'' of public access to data that you are fighting for--and this is not some kind of publicity stunt, as many have suggested--then why are you picking on this one experiment, and not the ''tens of thousands'' of scientific papers that have been published just, say, in the last decade?  After all, Lenski's paper is no different than any scientific paper, in that is summarizes, but does not publish, the raw data on which it was based.  So shouldn't you be asking every scientist who has published a paper in which raw data has not been published to present that data?  Why just Lenski?  Aren't there potentially ''thousands'' of 'new insights' that could be produced from public scrutiny of this data?

I think your motivations speak pretty clearly for themselves.  [[User:porkchop]]

:I think your motivations speak pretty clearly for themselves.  [[User:porkchop]]