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Re:Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linke... by kamray23 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:46AM (#39466967)
Being published in Nature basically means that your paper is fine as far as review can see and that it could have a large impact. It retracts all the time.
Re:Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linke... by naasking on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:51AM (#39467029)
Yes, because peer review is not very good and not very deep. Retractions almost always come after the paper sees wider circulation and more people with a skeptical eye analyze the paper. Nature itself discusses this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15951

Re:Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linke... by snowwrestler on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:17AM (#39469288)
Peer review evaluates only the paper. It can’t check the underlying correctness of the science, only that the paper clearly communicates what was done and observed.

Science is a process. Publishing a paper is just one step in the middle of that process. Not an endpoint.

Re:Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linke... by naasking on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:10PM (#39469995)
Which is exactly what I and the OP have been saying. This is not a discovery but a claim of a discovery, and whether that claim stands up to scrutiny only time will tell.