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 have been retracted, probably by some automated process that based the decision on the same material appearing in another journal (which was far more common at the time, and even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.”
@gregeganSF just in case anybody needed any more evidence that the academic publishing industrial complex is entirely broken
@darkuncle @gregeganSF broken as in it's a grift. Publishers don't add anything of value anymore in my opinion.
@Quantensalat @darkuncle @gregeganSF Oh, sometimes they fuck up the paper altogether. This happened to me once. My submission was set using their TeX template but apparently that wouldn't fit their workflow and so they re-set it. In the process changing numeric values, units and best of all: the order of authors. Hence, when it came out, I wasn't first author anymore. But hey: it's added value and peer review still means running an email server! 😅
