Editorial: Replication? Do You Even Have Access to the Data? Available to Purchase

You see an article and wonder: Are the results due to a “carefully selected” data filter? Would a small change negate or overturn the article’s primary point? Perhaps an innocent coding error explains everything? Maybe you have reason to suspect that the data was simply fabricated? In all of these cases, what is the very least that you need to determine if your suspicions are right? The data. Having it available (even on a very limited scale) is the most basic criteria any article claiming scientific validity needs to meet. Results must be verifiable. Journals should insist on it.

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