Last week, Longo and Drazen published
a frantic editorial in the New England Journal of Medicing on academic data sharing, implying that researchers that use data from other researcher are "research parasites". The journal replied:
We want to clarify, given recent concern about our policy, that the Journal is committed to data sharing in the setting of clinical trials. As stated in the Institute of Medicine report from the committee1 on which I served and the recent editorial by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE),2 we believe there is a moral obligation to the people who volunteer to participate in these trials to ensure that their data are widely and responsibly used.
