Why should a scientist always share the results of his or her experiments?

Science works through experimentation and observation: one experiment looks at the effects of changing one variable, another looks at the effects of changing another. No one person or research group can carry out all the experiments, and by exchanging information and findings from experiments, one researcher can free up another to work on new projects.

In the interim, BEFORE the work is published, a researcher would have no problem sharing his new results with other interested researchers, assuming their good faith (and this good faith will be returned), and the other researchers may have insights or other experimental data that they will share with the first researcher. Of course, new results are eventually published, but this may happen up to five years after the new experimental results are obtained.

A scientist should always share the results of their experiments to contribute to the collective body of scientific knowledge, allow for peer review and validation of findings, promote transparency and reproducibility, facilitate collaboration and further research, and ultimately advance scientific understanding and innovation.