Well, kinda. The Higgs and Higgsless proposals mostly go back to the 60s and mid 70s, even if some papers are later. The actual discovery was on 2012 40-50 year

Well, kinda. The Higgs and Higgsless proposals mostly go back to the 60s and mid 70s, even if some papers are later. The actual discovery was on 2012 40-50 years later and the Nobel handed out. A random short paper from even a good journal like Phys Rev Letters is unlikely to be Nobel earthbreaking either, much less have effort to debunk it. As an undergrad I had to discover that the 20 year olf PRL used as a basis for the 2 week Lab (Thorium C x-section) actually had an incorrect analysis. All data taken was at the wrong energies so we had to spot the error, rederive the equation and values to measure it correctly before the halflife brought our counts down too low. That PRL was never corrected and the TAs comment was, "that'll teach you to trust some random derivation you found in an article somewhere". Similar story about the incorrect Hydrogen radius expectation value integrating factor in Baym. Even text books aren't always correct.