this is sort of one of the weird problems that shows up at the intersection between science in the public interest and a market driven system of production.
pure science that is publicly funded in the public interest would publish all raw data along with re-runnable processing pipelines that will literally reproduce the figures of interest.
but, the funding is often provided by governments with the aim of producing commercializable new technology that can make life better for society.
the problem is that if you do the science in the open, then it can be literally picked off by large incumbents before smaller inventors have a chance to try and spin up commercialization of their life's work.
so we have this system today where science is semi-closed in order to protect the inventors, but sometimes to the detriment of the science itself.
pure science that is publicly funded in the public interest would publish all raw data along with re-runnable processing pipelines that will literally reproduce the figures of interest.
but, the funding is often provided by governments with the aim of producing commercializable new technology that can make life better for society.
the problem is that if you do the science in the open, then it can be literally picked off by large incumbents before smaller inventors have a chance to try and spin up commercialization of their life's work.
so we have this system today where science is semi-closed in order to protect the inventors, but sometimes to the detriment of the science itself.