If you put the omitted &quot;...&quot; back in to the quote, it makes it clearer that the &quot;for their own ends&quot; is about appropriating credit rather than testing alternate hypotheses.<p>More importantly, the full paragraph starts &quot;A second concern held by some is that...&quot;, signaling that this characterization is a not-universal opinion about what might be bad about data sharing. The <i>very next paragraph</i> argues that it doesn&#x27;t have to be this way, which is the whole (missed?) point of the text.<p>It&#x27;s almost like the posts here are trying to make the authors&#x27; case about the hazards of data sharing for them.