Without the ability to hide the data, there won’t be much room for sustaining the manufactured “scientific” consensus:
Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast have been ordered to hand over 40 years of research data on tree rings after a three-year battle with climate sceptics. The ruling by the Information Commissioner sets a precedent for scientists having to comply with the strictest interpretation of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. It suggests that in future academics will not be able to avoid handing over data by claiming that the task would be too onerous or that it would breach intellectual property rights.
No doubt we will soon be hearing great lamentations about how open data and independent verification is anti-science.