I have to wonder what their objective is here, though. Any data they produce will be useless to other researchers working towards a viable production vaccine. What they are doing does not speed up the process in any way. Their sample size is tiny, their controls are poor, confounding variables are immense, and the results are no more useful than the way preliminary research in vitro is normally done. Human testing is not useful unless done at large scale with proper controls and statistical methods, prefaced by evidence for plausible mechanism and sometimes efficacy in other species. Medicine is not like inventing a new Bluetooth whatever in your garage. It doesn’t scale from one to many. There’s a reason epidemiological research is done the way it is, and what these people are doing just seems like a pointless stunt.
Also, fun fact: all science is already “open source”. That’s a key thing that makes it science.
