Of course, the number of retracted scientific articles pales compared to the upwards of about 100,000 such articles published every year. However, these retracted articles are perhaps only a tip of the iceberg.
Keep in mind: Science is human, all too human (to borrow freely from Friedrich Nietzsche). Anybody, who claims trust science or science is truth is more a charlatan!
These large numbers of retractions in various journals may very well indicate that the process of accepting papers for publication in academic journals (e.g. peer review) is broken or flawed.
"... London-based Hindawi, a subsidiary of the publisher John Wiley & Sons that publishes a broad range of scientific journals, is retracting over 500 papers in 16 journals because of “suspicious and unethical activities”. Likewise the Institute of Physics, which also publishes science journals, retracted 500 papers at the start of September for the same reason (after having retracted 350 papers in February). And PLoS, another scientific publisher, retracted 100 papers in August. All the papers in question slipped through the net in just the last two years. ..."
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