David Crotty has published "Nevermind the Data, Where Are the Protocols?" in The Scholarly Kitchen.
This is more complicated than you might think. The smallest variations in technique or reagents can lead to major differences in results. The scant information offered by most journals' Materials and Methods sections makes replication fairly impossible. Often when describing a technique, an author will merely cite a previous paper where they used that technique…which also cites a previous paper, which also cites a previous paper and the wild goose chase is on. Methodologies evolve over time, and even if you can track down the original source of the technique, it likely has changed a great deal over the years.
Digital Scholarship | "A Quarter-Century as an Open Access Publisher"
