&gt; They may not get the Science or Nature papers though, as those are typically reserved for data producers.<p>[I&#x27;m an undergrad research student at my university, doing research into Asteroseismology.] While this might be the case for medical data, I can give a counterexample of astrophysics data. As a community, we only have so many telescopes. Most of the work I&#x27;m doing is involved with the NASA Kepler space telescope, and several of my colleagues have written articles in Nature and Science about new techniques and results from data that is publicly available from that telescope. Several papers I&#x27;ve coauthored have mainly been new data processing techniques to learn more about stars using existing data.<p>So, from my perspective, the whole &quot;research parasite&quot; FUD was particularly ridiculous. It&#x27;s incredibly arrogant to claim that you&#x27;ve learnt all you can learn from a single collection of data. Calling people that salvage even more information from other data sets &quot;parasites&quot; is incredibly arrogant.