The Journal of Experimental Medicine editorialised on 4 July against authors 'dumping' data on them, stating that, effective immediately, the journal will now only accept "essential supporting information". Phil Davis, on The Scholarly Kitchen, wrote about it in his post, A Journal is Not a Data Dump, and generated a horde of reader responses, many of them raising important issues such as the role of journals in archiving data, where data should ideally be housed, and whether some data is even worth keeping.