It’s all such bullshit. Academic papers are published in journals precisely so they can be challenged. The journal editors retracting papers long after their publication for almost any reason makes a mockery of the concept of academic journals. If there’s fraud or conflicts of interest with the authors then retractions can be justified, but it really should be a very last resort. But retractions have increased ten fold since the 1990s, and when we consider what’s really changed since the 1990s I don’t believe many would reach the conclusion that a massive increase in academic fraud has been a noticeable alteration. We really are living in the age of soyance.