Yes, isn't open science the right thing to do, regardless of how many jerks are doing it?
BTW these things always happen. When I wrote this (a pro open science/open source) post, I got push back saying I'm against people coding... Even though I wrote it to help people learn how to code.http://neuroplausible.com/matlab
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People will always find a way to twist stuff one way or another. But in my ten years of doing research (much less than many in this thread) open science has been great to see gain momentum, totally a great thing.
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But it naturally will attract bad actors. And we need to weed them out. That's all. I'm 100% for Open science. I didn't spend my phd (4+ years ago now time flies!) replicating computational models, begging for open source, and better research practises to give up now.

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Yes, but let’s weed them out individually and directly! That’s harder to do, but looks much more encouraging and welcoming than talking down the whole movement.
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Let's just disagree to disagree.

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But I think we agree! I just don’t think it’s helpful to say that there is a general problem, because then we keep bad actors - which is what we all want to avoid!
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I don't believe it's a few rogue bros. I think toxic masculinity and other toxic behaviours that we see like bullying stem from systemic social issues which intersect with science whether open or not and we need to be vigilant.
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And yes, like with open source and tech generally (if you saw that piece) it's possible for open science to end up less inclusive than the field(s) baseline(s).
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