Call for scientific research code to be released

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Submission + - Call for scientific research code to be released (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Pentagram on Sunday February 07, 2010 @06:40PM

Pentagram writes: Professor Ince, writing in the Guardian, has issued a call for scientists to make the code they use in the course of their research publicly available. He focuses specifically on the topical controversies in climate science, and concludes with the view that researchers that are able to but do not release programs that they use should not be regarded as scientists.

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