Researchers associated with UMN intentionally submitted patches to the Linux kernel with vulnerabilities in them as an experiment. OSS maintainers shouldn't have to be the unwitting test subjects of experiments and have their time wasted (or worse, have vulnerabilities make it into their source code) so that researchers can write a paper about it.
Ah, but of course you are one of The Smart People whereas we plebians (and the NASA scientists who designed and launched the probe) are merely average.
So... basically the entire internet, then?