Attack of the Data Suckers! | ASH Clinical News

"The authors, Dan L. Longo, MD, and Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD, praised the idea of data sharing in theory, but contend that one of the unintended consequences of sharing research data may be the emergence of a new class of researchers known as “research parasites,” described as “people who had nothing to do with the design and execution of the study but use another group’s data for their own ends, possibly stealing from the research productivity planned by the data-gatherers, or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited.”"