If open science is the answer, what’s the question? - Impact of Social Sciences

"A core element of the argument that’s put forward for why there should be open data access is that the research is publicly funded. Public funding should mean open research to maximise public value, according to this rationale. This justification sounds so reasonable it’s hard to take issue with. But the reason for that is that neoliberal logic infuses our understanding, ordering our social reality, regulating our practice and beliefs. Viewed through the neoliberal economic calculation lens, paying for the process – for the research – means owning the output: the data....

The idea of data sharing for replication and verification is based on the notion that data is free-standing and that anyone correctly analysing the same data set will come to the same results. I’m not sure this is the case for quantitative data in the social sciences, but I’m certain that it isn’t the case for qualitative research..."