Comment by rfgplk

First of all, people retract papers all the time. I can't give you the exact figures, but surely at least half of all academic researchers have retracted a paper at least once in their lives... Second, is it so hard to believe we are going through a complete paradigm shift in academia? People can now produce hundreds of high quality papers in a matter of weeks/days (with enough compute). Even if the error rate goes up (which it likely won't) we're still being exposed to a monstrous amount of novel information.

Even Einstein retracted one of his earlier papers re the cosmological constant... And he is one of the greats. Although not purely math related, it still counts.