As a scientist, if someone asked me for data, which I didn’t have but which were used in one of my papers, I’d know exactly who has it and would volunteer the name of the collaborator from whom it might be obtained. And, in fact, I’d be an advocate of the requestor in getting that data from my collaborator. There is no substitute for demonstration in science. I’d want all my conclusions to be clearly demonstrable from the data. Sharing data is the scientifically requisite way of demonstrating that one’s own conclusions are at least reasonable, if not correct (there’s no dishonor in science for being thoughtfully wrong).

Steve, when all is said and done, and the scientific shouting is over, sharing your cumulative experiences in getting the various data sets would be an enormously telling story all by itself. The field has been totally corrupted with politics, and evidence of that shows up in the hostility and deliberate lack of cooperation shown towards any critical regard, i.e., towards you, in short.