I don't think it's a discredit. arXiv is a preprint database, which means nothing is refereed. It's under "Computer Science", but that's just the author's own c

I don't think it's a discredit. arXiv is a preprint database, which means nothing is refereed. It's under "Computer Science", but that's just the author's own classification. I don't think there's a way for the admins of arXiv to remove a paper. Once a paper is in the arXiv, it's there permanently: even the authors themselves can only update.[0] E.g. this bit of quackery "Electromagnetic Signals from Bacterial DNA"[1] [0] https://arxiv.org/help/withdraw https://arxiv.org/help/withdraw [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3113v1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3113v1