"Physicist Henry Legg…called out…𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘉 for publishing a paper on a quantum computing device by Microsoft researchers that, for #IP reasons, omitted information required for #reproducibility…[Sergey] Frolov, whose independent review…of the Microsoft work spurred its retraction, said he & [Vincent] Mourik have had to repeatedly email the Microsoft researchers… to insist on #data. 'You have to learn how to be an asshole. It shouldn’t be this hard.'"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/15/1092535/a-wave-of-retractions-is-shaking-physics/

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A wave of retractions is shaking physics

Grappling with problematic papers and poorly documented data, researchers and journal editors gathered in Pittsburgh to hash out the best way forward.

^{Sophia Chen (MIT Technology Review)}