Against Dataism and for Data Sharing of Big Biomedical and Clinical Data with Research Parasites
According to the Oxford Dictionaries Online, Medicine is “The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.” This implies that a patient is in the central focus of the profession and all relevant specializations and subareas are concerned with benefiting a patient's health. In recent years, the analysis of clinical and biomedical data, including high-throughput experiments, has been added to the list of such specializations that make contributions for the greater good. However, the analysis and the reuse of such data is in general difficult and for this reason has been under scrutiny (Ioannidis, 2005; Chalmers and Glasziou, 2009; Ioannidis and Khoury, 2011; Rung and Brazma, 2013; Ioannidis et al., 2015).