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Legal Note on Data Ownership and SOP
If you suspect both, do both. Howver if you have nothing more than your scientifically worthless comments about articles, which are, as far as i read and understood them, written to the highest scientific standards (i have seldom read a more clear and concise paper than Lenskis one), spare your readers from your whining. Sadly the highly statistically nature of the experiment makes it in principle difficult to reproduce (which in the past hast tempted more scientists into faking data, look for "Schön Affair"). But the befault in scientific publications is to believe that the author did at least not fake data, so i trust the authors in this point fully because all of them seem to have a clean scientific record.
Legal Note: Lenski does not own all that data. His university owns the material. The way it works is, you file an MTA with the university for whatever it is you want, and you are generally expected to bear the standard costs of providing it to you. This is accepted practice in science. If you want the data, do this, and then if they turn you down you could perhaps sue Michigan State for some kind of discrimination. To go outside these procedures is to request special treatment.
