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by f6v 737 days ago
> Or are papers sometimes retracted for being egregiously wrong, even if their methods were not intentionally misleading?

There could be a mistake the authors made which led to a wrong interpretation. Like, someone might write another article commenting on that mistake and wrong conclusions. But that wouldn’t be a reason for retraction. Something should be incredibly wrong for authors or journal to do that. Retractions due to fraud are much more common.