"At the same time, wealthy nations have, for centuries, been extracting natural resources from low- and middle-income countries and pocketing the proceeds. Scientific data, unfortunately, have been among those resources."
@cyrilpedia Why ‘unfortunately’? Unlike minerals or other physical resources, scientific data are usually shared, and results are supposed to be reproducible, so it's not like they can be taken away. What am I missing?
@josemanuel What you're missing is the focus of the piece: the lack of data sharing and credit for the communities where the data was mined.
@josemanuel A more predatory aspect in mining genetic/population data in the developing world & then enmeshing it in patents & other forms of IP protection. In which case there is no sharing at all, it's just strip mining genetic resources.
@cyrilpedia That's definitely unfortunate. My original thought process was that both scientific data and methodology are ultimately published in peer-reviewed papers, so they are shared, albeit indirectly.
I see now that there can be instances where that is not the case. Thanks.
