Why I don’t know how PLOS will respond to authors’ refusal to release data | Quick Thoughts

" ... On November 13, 2015, I made a formal request to Paul McCrone, the first author of a PLOS article  to provide the data needed for re-analyses and sensitivity analyses  to see if results held up with different assumptions. I got a quick reply from that my request was being considered under the Freedom of Information Act. I cc’ed PLOS One in my request. I promptly received an acknowledgment from a staff member. My request was assigned a case number. On December 11 2015, I received a letter indicating that King’s College declined my request for the data. I had previously called for release of data from the PACE paper published in The Lancet.  I also have called for statements concerning the availability of clinical trial data to be incorporated into the consent forms soliciting patient involvement in research , as an extension of a BMJ patient-oriented initiative. But the request to PLOS was different than other request for the PACE data because it involved a journal that required a commitment to data sharing as a condition for publication ..."