| ▲ | moregrist an hour ago | |
Most good scientists work hard to prove results to themselves before going public. Peer review is then done _in private_ before publication as a check on quality and significance. Retracting a paper is pretty embarrassing. And not considered science as usual. | ||
| ▲ | nimonian 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
The greatest proof ever written by man, Andrew Wiles' FLT, was published with a flaw before being retracted and reworked. It's _completely_ normal in mathematics to find flaws in the argument. That's what peer review in mathematics is _for_. Besides which it's not clear if these papers are considered published or preprint since they appear in no journal, so it's not really a retraction. It's also very very normal to post preprints on Arxiv before peer review, so it's not the case that mathematics is kept private during review. | ||
| ▲ | rpdillon an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Retraction is after publication and peer review, no? | ||