We question the choice of the padlock and dagger illustration you used to open the discussion by Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop ('Don't let transparency damage science' Nature 529, 459–461; 2016). To us, this falsely implies that the article is about open access to journal publications and, by its association with the title, that open-access publishing presents a threat to science.
The authors send no such scary message, which calls attention to the more general concepts of openness and transparency in providing access to original research data.
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Shashok, K., Melero, R. Transparency: an opaque illustration. Nature 531, 35 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/531035e
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