Data sharing be based on principles of free, prior and informed consent, and prioritise the protection of the rights of those who generated the data, and/or those potentially affected by data-sharing. — discusses the international exchange of data in the natural sciences. Data sharing Data sharing is the practice of making data used for scholarly research available to other investigators. Replication has a long history in science. The motto of The Royal Society is 'Nullius in verba', translated "Take no man's word for it." Many funding agencies, institutions, and publication venues have policies regarding data sharing because transparency and openness are considered
Mike Sutton (criminologist) to conclude that "even by the turn of the twentieth century errors in earlier measurements were readily apparent without the need to invoke decimal places." In 2014, Sutton published a non-peer reviewed e-book, "Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret", alleging that Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace plagiarised the theory of natural selection from Scottish grain merchant and arboriculturist Patrick Matthew. Matthew had published "On Naval Timber and Arboriculture" in 1831, twenty-eight years before Darwin's "On the Origin of Species". Darwin biographer James Moore declared it a "non-issue", and said that "I would be extremely surprised if there was any new