Reproduction, replication, are words not accurate enough. The point is that access to the data, the code, procedures, and so on is the rigorous way towards independent validation.<p>The best part of the scientific method is that any scientific contribution has to pass the filter of independent validation. Now it became technically possible for the authors of the research to give all they have in order to facilitate independent validation.<p>This is very good news for the researchers, because it is much more feasible for them to make open their results than to wait for the publishing system to recognize that we are in the 21st century.