That is exactly the problem. All this stuff is supposed to be in the paper, the paper is not a press release.

And everyone understands that its hard to know exactly what info someone else will be missing, so it wont be perfect at first. That is why there is supposed to be a back and forth the first time a new method is used.

Figuring out what needs to go into the methods is going to be an iterative process. As it is right now its a disaster though. Like they say in this article no one even knows the most basic info like cell density. The entire system is not set up to deal with replications at all because they haven't been doing them.