You can’t ask Eli a question like that – the standard response is “I’m not going to do your homework for you”.

It seems to me, that with all the papers that have been written using this Briffa data (that he got from the Russians, that wasn’t his to give, yet he was able to pass on to others except Steve), that someone would want to see that the data is released, for no other reason than to defend the reconstruction.

Or as Phil Trans Royal Soc B did, to follow the rules they set forth for publication.

I mean, if Steve did publish in a “peer reviewed” journal (perhaps in Phil Trans Royal Soc B), would you want him to provide his code and data so it could be checked? Or would you let him claim IP?

One thing that causes problems with posts there sometimes is the spam checker, I had a post rejected because I used the word ‘ambient’ because it includes the name of a drug, others have had problems because they used the word ‘specialist’ for the same reason. It took a while to find out why those posts had disappeared into limbo.

[Jean S: This comment was considered "spam" by the CA spam filter ]