Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
February 10, 2021โข98 words
"Colleagues I spoke to were appalled. None of them had ever heard of a paper in any field being disappeared after formal publication. Rejected prior to publication? Of course. Retracted? Yes, but only after an investigation, the results of which would then be made public by way of explanation. But simply disappeared? Never. If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?"
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/