This is western culture. For starters if you fuck up, you might ruin an innocent persons life, and in turn, hopefully they will sue you into the ground and rui

This is western culture. For starters if you fuck up, you might ruin an innocent persons life, and in turn, hopefully they will sue you into the ground and ruin yours. Did the authors listed actually submit the paper. Are all the authors complicit? Were there different levels of complicity? Was the Journal involved? Were the reviewers involved? By just stating the facts the case is made and humanity hopefully moves forward reducing errors and less lives ruined. Add to this, do you think a person who is at their wits end deserves to be taken down. They might be just about to lose their house and position at there university and this was their last desperate ditched attempt. Their harm to the original author really was minimal, if anything at all. (Plus they got an extra citation out of it) Would you as a human not feel guilty if they killed themselves after you went to the extra effort of outing them and you realized just how bad a shape they were to do what they did? What if they we in a manic state at the time, and the internet now turns on them and makes them and their families life a further living hell? Western culture is mostly about about moving things forward, not revenge for revenges sake. Most decent people in the west try and practice this.