"Open Science – AI Calico

"Today I attended a talk by Prof Geoffrey Boulton regarding the push for scientific data to be more widely accessible. According to Prof Boulton, scientific research can only benefit with a wider sharing of data, allowing access by fellow scientists and laypeople alike. there are many instances of journal publications which are wrong but not retracted due to the reluctance of the publisher to do so. This seems to be an increasing problem and has been reported in the Guardian and (more recently) the Economist. Prof Boulton point out that errors in results and in methods are more discoverable, if the investigators also made the metadata of the study available ..."