"NIH's Policy Evolution: Embracing Open Science and Transforming Clinical Research"

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has implemented a new data sharing policy to increase transparency in biomedical research, a move praised in a recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) op-ed. This policy shift marks a significant reversal from NEJM's previous stance, which had controversially criticized data sharing by coining the term "research parasites." The change reflects the growing Open Science movement, advocating for public access to data from government-funded research to accelerate scientific progress. The NEJM now supports the idea of a government repository for scientific data to ensure compliance with sharing policies and facilitate broader research collaboration.