Not a researcher, but have worked closely with them on data sharing.
I think there's a variant of getting scooped worth pointing out, which is that in some fields people are scared of being scooped by a low quality lab that fakes the results.
I had a very senior materials science researcher describe what he thought was a promising line of study get shut down because a low quality lab in china scooped him with results good enough for publication but not good enough that people would want to replicate. He was 100% confident their data was faked but getting grant money once that experiment was done was like pulling teeth and so he abandoned the route for other ideas.
I think there's a variant of getting scooped worth pointing out, which is that in some fields people are scared of being scooped by a low quality lab that fakes the results.
I had a very senior materials science researcher describe what he thought was a promising line of study get shut down because a low quality lab in china scooped him with results good enough for publication but not good enough that people would want to replicate. He was 100% confident their data was faked but getting grant money once that experiment was done was like pulling teeth and so he abandoned the route for other ideas.