Regardless of what side you come down on w.r.t. this particular issue (and I realize it's a sensitive one), the fact that global policy was influenced by a paper that used secret, buggy Fortran code to manipulate a data set is extremely concerning. This is not good science.
Publishing data and source code should be a requirement these days.
Or would it?
http://climateaudit.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/mcintyre-grl...
Regardless of what side you come down on w.r.t. this particular issue (and I realize it's a sensitive one), the fact that global policy was influenced by a paper that used secret, buggy Fortran code to manipulate a data set is extremely concerning. This is not good science.
Publishing data and source code should be a requirement these days.