Re: [dinosaur] RETRACTION: Oculudentavis, new smallest known Mesozoic bird in amber from Cretaceous of Myanmar

[Paul P <turtlecroc@yahoo.com>]

On Saturday, July 25, 2020, 01:27:30 AM UTC, Thomas Richard Holtz 
<tholtz@umd.edu> wrote:

> David wrote:
> >The paper may no longer be available from the journal (I haven't checked if 
> >that is so, or if the PDF is still available with a big watermark saying 
> >"RETRACTED", which is how at least some journals do their retractions).
> 
> For the record, it is the latter (still there, but with notation) at the 
> moment.


This thread has probably run its course (and then some), but this is just so 
odd. It strikes me as a different way of thinking, perhaps stemming from a 
top-down authoritarian system in which Chinese leaders probably *can* make 
things disappear. The authors' own "retraction" statement:

"We, the authors, are retracting this Article to prevent inaccurate information 
from remaining in the literature..."

is nonsensical--it's *in* the literature at this point, especially if it has 
been published in hardcopy. All you can do now is publish corrections and such. 
Nor should Nature be altering the original PDF online. I wonder who reviewed 
the paper, if anyone.

    Paul P.