Post #3404820
2026-06-26 03:38 UTC
Lots of regrettable silliness here: two papers by Max Planck (!) have been retracted, probably by some automated process that based the decision on the same material appearing in another journal (which was far more common at the time, and even Einstein did it) and a rebuttal to a work being published under the same title (but not author) as the thing being rebutted.
But the funniest line in the article is:
“Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted
Replies (3)
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@darkuncle@infosec.exchange 2026-06-26 03:41
@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz just in case anybody needed any more evidence that the academic publishing industrial complex is entirely broken
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@grwster@mastodon.social 2026-06-26 03:43
@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz What’s going on at Springer Nature, didn’t they also just lay off the editorial staff at Scientific American?
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@darth_hideout@mas.to 2026-06-26 03:54
@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz Do we still have ħ?