Let’s just put a bright line down right now. 2016 is year 1. Everything published before 2016 is provisional. Don’t take publication as meaning much of anything, and just cos a paper’s been cited approvingly, that’s not enough either. You have to read each paper on its own. Anything published in 2015 or earlier is part of the “too big to fail” era, it’s potentially a junk bond supported by toxic loans and you shouldn’t rely on it.
This is based on an an article (http://goo.gl/sYHBKo) that shows just how bad journals are at acknowledging and fixing the problems with published papers.

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Too big to fail: Why it’s unrealistic to expect scientific journals to retract their huge backlog of erroneous papers – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
I couple years ago I wrote an article, “It’s too hard to publish criticisms and obtain data for replication.” I gave two examples demonstrating the struggles of myself and others to get journals to admit errors. The problem is that the standards for post-publication review are higher than for pre-publication review. You can find an …
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