Biden Calls for Realigning Research Incentives | Cancer Discovery

"Biden encouraged incentivizing researchers to share both data and results, and called for publishing more findings in open-access journals. “NASA's code to unblur images from the Hubble telescope was available to everyone immediately,” he pointed out. “Guess what happened? It was repurposed for breast cancer screening. Imagine if that code had been behind a paywall for a year or more?”

Replicating published findings is also key, Biden said. He observed that the current system doesn't consider this a priority; therefore, “this is not a very rewarding career move.” He opined that more grants are needed for “the work of verification, which is the core of science.” ..."