Yeah. Academic culture is totally broken, they institutionally assume at every level that everyone is honest and fraud doesn't exist. Therefore if someone points out problems with a paper or its data, it must be merely a mistake and the civilized thing to do is ask for a correction.

There appear to be no limits to how absurd this phenomenon can get. Here's an example:

https://pubpeer.com/publications/7611C2EEE5789028895D8BD02A1...