Retraction of error-filled analysis =/= "censorship"https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1332149885374668802 …
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In any other discipline, if you made obvious and repeated mathematical mistakes it would be expected that you get rid of the article, but in academia this is frowned upon It is a very strange system indeed
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Replying to @GidMK
Academia has norms that are necessarily different than other human endeavors. Show your work. Dispute facts & interpretations. And errors are corrected with reasons, not thrown down a memory hole.
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Replying to @AngryCardio
Academia has norms like any other field, and is prone to inertia. If something has dozens of obvious mathematical errors, it's very odd to call censorship when it's removed
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Replying to @GidMK
True. But usually retracted articles are still available to be seen following retraction, and specific critiques are given. I haven’t read this particular paper, so I can’t comment on the errors. But deletion seems extreme. I presume the specific errors were noted?
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Replying to @AngryCardio
Well, given that the article
@VPrasadMDMPH is objecting to the deletion of was a press release by JHU, I'm also unsure of what he even means. I believe the analysis itself is still easily available online, despite the press release webpage being deleted1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @GidMK @VPrasadMDMPH
Availability via web archive is one thing. Hosting by the publisher is another. But if it is only a press release, that is a whole other problem.
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No I mean the analysis itself was a presentation given by a lecturer and the university newsletter put out a press release with some of their graphs. The newsletter has now deleted the page, thus @VPrasadMDMPH's call of censorship
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