My experience is that no one is worse at statistical tests than physicists. They frequently don't know much stats and don't seem to care. It is a real problem in academics.
“I signed Bob Kopp’s letter asking for the retraction of Voortman & de Vos (2025)… Retraction would be too harsh.”
And what if your request is granted?
Will that have been too harsh?
Legitimizing retraction as an appropriate response to methodological disagreements when necessarily one party will be (more) correct than another is a slippery slope indeed.
My experience is that no one is worse at statistical tests than physicists. They frequently don't know much stats and don't seem to care. It is a real problem in academics.
Kopps retraction paper is primarily driven by political motives and personal vendettas
“I signed Bob Kopp’s letter asking for the retraction of Voortman & de Vos (2025)… Retraction would be too harsh.”
And what if your request is granted?
Will that have been too harsh?
Legitimizing retraction as an appropriate response to methodological disagreements when necessarily one party will be (more) correct than another is a slippery slope indeed.
Retracting all (geoscience) papers that should make an undergrad in econometrics blush is a slope I'm prepared to slide down.
I look forward to your future public calls for retraction of specific papers. Here I discuss a couple that might get in your list — https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/64/4/JAMC-D-24-0222.1.xml