I've read a crazy amount of biomedical papers that model development or some such thing, spend the whole time talking about how cool their model is, hardly validating it in vivo or in vitro and call it a day without a single line of code released.

Frankly, I don't even know how reviewers even believe them.

Academics are all cronies.

Here's something similar which you can take for a test drive: http://auduno.github.io/clmtrackr/examples/facesubstitution....

It's open-sourced and carries the MIT license.

That is both funny and horrifying. :D