A place to put things.
The part about google scholar is especially chilling.
The deletion or corruption of scientific is a ratchet. Citizens can no longer advocate for courses of action based on concrete evidence, and crucially can’t advocate for the scientific method itself.
But in the current, actual world, most papers are missing important details. The problem of having to scan your eyeballs past a few extra digits is a silly non-issue compared to the problem of meaningless results everywhere.
The researchers who discovered the contamination issue wrote a commentary describing their attempts to replicate the original findings. The paper, titled “Reinterpretation of report of tetrataenite in bulk alloy castings,” was published in Advanced Science around the same time as the retraction notice for the original paper.