Now you have hit the nail on the head. They won't release the data now, because they fear that if someone else gets access to it, who can really analyze it, for what it is, than it will blow up in their faces. What other reason could they have for not allowing the scientific community at large access to this ground breaking data, to allow a free, totally independent invetsig...I mean analysis.
TAM
Based on the book "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark" published by Headline 1996.
The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments:
* Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts
* Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
* Arguments from authority carry little weight (in science there are no "authorities").
* Spin more than one hypothesis - don't simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
* Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours.
* Quantify, wherever possible.
* If there is a chain of argument every link in the chain must work.
* "Occam's razor" - if there are two hypothesis that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.
*Ask whether the hypothesis can, at least in principle, be falsified (shown to be false by some unambiguous test). In other words, it is testable? Can others duplicate the experiment and get the same result?
http://www.xenu.net/archive/baloney_detection.html