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dkural an hour ago

Your example of the Italian school is well taken, although most of their results were later proven to be correct in the right setting. Severi's example is particularly egregious and I think a major reason this became a thing is Severi's refusal to course-correct and accept that some of the results were not correct. It has echoes of Mochizuki, and I fear, once you dig deeper, some issues around the initial declaration of "We've proven the Classification of Finite Simple Groups". There were many genuine gaps, and a lot of lore taken for granted. The sociology around how this happened is interesting - rushing to announce that it was done was the major mistake, it took away almost all incentive to actually write up the proofs and take them through proper peer-review. Genuine mathematical work was falsely reduced to "write up".