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The apology format where 'I take it back' somehow takes longer than saying it did.
means An official take-back of a published statement, claim, or published error, admitting it shouldn't have been said or printed.
from From Latin retractio, 'a drawing back,' built from re- ('back') plus trahere ('to pull, drag') — the same trahere that gives us 'tractor' and 'traction.' So a retraction is literally pulling your words back the way you'd haul in a rope, except words, once out, never come back quite as cleanly as rope does.
- science's eraser
- Over 10,000 papers retracted in 2023 alone
- too little late
- Average retraction takes years after fraud is known
- news version
- Correction runs page 2, original ran page 1
- still cited
- Retracted papers keep getting cited for decades anyway