This is even more true when you realise that even the worst papers only get retracted due to media noisehttps://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1341042196733161474 …
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Science is so self-correcting that you can point out obvious numeric mistakes in a paper and the editor will tell you that they don't care and won't retract it no matter what
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In a sense, those blathering on about "academic silencing" have a point- it's true that even though there are innumerable papers bad enough to be retracted, it takes enormous amounts of negative press before a journal will consider it because bottom line they do not care
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Absolutely. Bad papers rarely/never result in cancelled subscriptions from libraries or researchers
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