It’s much much more likely that she did something wrong trying to replicate it than the paper was wrong. Did she try to contact the authors, discuss with her advisor?

Pushing for retraction just like that and going off to private sector is…idk it’s a decision.

It went on for a few months. The source data for the paper was synthesised and it was like trying to get blood out of a stone trying to get hold of it, clearly because they knew they were in trouble. Lots of research money was wasted trying to reproduce it.

She was just done with it then and a pharma company said "hey you fed up with this shit and like money?" and she was and does.

edit: as per the other comment, my background is mathematics and statistics after engineering. I went into software but still have connections back to academia which I left many years ago because it was a political mess more than anything. Oh and I also like money.