I personally wouldn’t think twice about reporting whatever data I found. I suspect I’d be blindsided by the backlash (which I’m inferring would exist, from your comment) for publishing true findings, but then think in hindsight that I ought to have foreseen it.
But then, I’m pretty inept at social status games. I can entertain the notion that most people in such a situation would either not publish, or worse, fudge the data.
Hard to say.
I personally wouldn’t think twice about reporting whatever data I found. I suspect I’d be blindsided by the backlash (which I’m inferring would exist, from your comment) for publishing true findings, but then think in hindsight that I ought to have foreseen it.
But then, I’m pretty inept at social status games. I can entertain the notion that most people in such a situation would either not publish, or worse, fudge the data.