{"id":13227,"date":"2011-12-08T12:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=13227"},"modified":"2011-12-08T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:44:30","slug":"deborah-cohen-censorship-and-transparency-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2011\/12\/08\/deborah-cohen-censorship-and-transparency-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Cohen: Censorship and transparency in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/debs.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Cohen\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" align=\"left\" \/> Raw data is a bit like raw sewage\u2014or so says Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust\u2014in it you might find the odd nugget in amongst the garbage.\u00a0 His comment came at a debate hosted by Index on Censorship on transparency in science, pegged to a publication that deals with this very issue. It\u2019s certainly a hot topic in all walks of life with the clamour for more information to be put into the public domain. Even representatives of the drug industry\u2014not historically noted for openness and disclosure\u2014are <a title=\"BMJ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/343\/bmj.d7713\" target=\"_blank\">arguing<\/a> that the more science in the public domain, the better.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And in 2000, a desire for increased transparency across public life was really brought into effect. The Freedom of Information Act\u2014 a hard won piece of legislation by journalists and democracy campaigners\u2014was passed, which Tony Blair later <a title=\"BBC blogs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/opensecrets\/2010\/09\/why_tony_blair_thinks_he_was_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">went on to say<\/a> he was a \u201cnaive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop\u201d to have let pass.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists he thought, were using it more than \u201cthe people\u201d\u2013but increasingly academic researchers are turning to it to answer their questions.<\/p>\n<p>Blair is in venerable scientific company. Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society, <a title=\"Sir Paul Nurse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/may\/25\/freedom-information-laws-harass-scientists\" target=\"_blank\">complained<\/a> early this year that FOI legislation was being used in a vexatious way to harass climate scientists, who are being targeted by organised campaigns of requests for data aimed at intimidating them and slowing down research.<\/p>\n<p>And the law might well be extended. Section 6 of the Protection of Freedoms legislation\u2014that encompasses the Freedom of Information Act\u2014is currently in the Lords for debate having \u201cglided through\u201d the House of Commons. This will allow <a title=\"Raw datasets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homeoffice.gov.uk\/publications\/about-us\/legislation\/freedom-bill\/fact-sheet-part6?view=Binary\" target=\"_blank\">reusable electronic datasets<\/a> to be available upon request from publicly funded bodies, including universities.<\/p>\n<p>Crossbench peer Baroness Onora O\u2019Neill\u2014 the closest the Index of Censorship could find to having a total transparency perspective\u2014has started to ring alarm bells. She suggested this Bill failed to take into account the specific challenges posed by scientific data. Only \u201ctechnically competent\u201d people should be able to request such data\u2014although who should be the arbiter of technical competence was unclear. \u201cBy whom should the data be reusable? And when should it be possible to request it?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a view dismissed by George Monbiot as patrician\u2014it\u2019s not for us to decide who is technically competent or not, he says. Misuse of data is not for us to decide. A lack of transparency and a refusal of data will only fuel suspicion.<br \/>\nAnd science does have specific reasons to engender suspicion\u2014undeclared conflicts of interest, ghostwriting, failure to <a title=\"Index on censorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/11\/science-medicine-secrecy-drug-studies-lives-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\">publish negative results<\/a> and academic publishers putting up pay wall barriers between scientists and the public undermines trust in scientists\u2013yet with the increasing super-specialisation of science, trust is essential.\u00a0 The increasing complexity means that the methods section of studies becomes difficult to understand, so you have to trust that the scientist has got it right, Monbiot said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we mean by data?\u201d Walport asked. Refined data is not necessarily good if you don\u2019t have a methods section. \u201cWe need to know what one means when you say making data available.\u201d It\u2019s easy, he says, to churn out tons of garbage and let people get on with it.<\/p>\n<p>Datasets that have public utility\u2014such as clinical trial data and perhaps data on the safety of materials used in aircrafts\u2014should be made available. But data used for private benefit and email exchanges are off limits, he said\u2014although this would not have gained traction if this exemption applied to civil servants and those in government, who need to be fully accountable to the public. And perhaps, there is an imbalance. If those funded by the public purse have to share their data, then what about the private sector who might supply services or goods to the public?<\/p>\n<p>This might well impact on the NHS, said Professor David Colquhoun. Private providers to the NHS should be able to be scrutinised in much the same way as public bodies and this should come as part of their contract. His belief is total openness. \u201cIf they want my data they can have it,\u201d he says\u2014pointing out that some of what he does is incredibly complex.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Nurse\u2019s organisation has been seeking views on openness in their study \u201c<a title=\"Science is a public enterprise\" href=\"http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/policy\/projects\/science-public-enterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science is a Public Enterprise<\/a>,\u201d which will make recommendations as to how to best to implement the opening up scientific information.<\/p>\n<p>A mission statement on the Royal Society\u2019s website already perhaps gives an indication about their views: \u201cOpen access to scientific information is not in practice an unqualified good. A commitment to open science does not imply openness to everything, to anyone or for any purpose. Open science should be bounded by considerations of quality, legitimate commercial interests, privacy and security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what makes science exceptional? If we demand transparency in some parts of public life why not all? Questions that will undoubtedly be debated once the slow moving scientific community has come to understand how the upcoming amendments to the Freedom of Information legislation will affect them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deborah Cohen<\/strong> is investigations editor, <em>BMJ\/<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raw data is a bit like raw sewage\u2014or so says Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust\u2014in it you might find the odd nugget in amongst the garbage.\u00a0 His [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2011\/12\/08\/deborah-cohen-censorship-and-transparency-in-science\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[2731,2459,1005],"class_list":["post-13227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-at-large","tag-academic-research","tag-science-reporting","tag-transparency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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