"“lamentable archiving and data-sharing practices”"
Yes that did put me in mind of The Climate "Research" Unit and the harryreadme file.
I've heard people comment that functional MRI has been used by drinks companies to identify brain activation and response to various drinks. Yes that really is your brain on Coke.
That research has been very quietly done and is obviously worth billions in a global market.
"Know your tools" is a good moto but of course with tools this complex there is a reason for "we have to trust the developers knew what they were doing."
This looks like the situation in CFD,but without the approach. In that field no software (or new major release) gets accepted without multiple test runs amongst known test cases (many from live wind tunnel tests). First they test, then they trust.
BTW doing it with dead samples brought up the interesting factoid that about 500 genes were firing after death, presumably as part of the organisms last ditch attempts to self heal.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
