I really don’t believe it’s fair to call journal articles or letters published in peer-reviewed academic journals, “Fake News” if they turn out to be wrong, or

I really don’t believe it’s fair to call journal articles or letters published in peer-reviewed academic journals, “Fake News” if they turn out to be wrong, or if the authors retract the paper. Part of the larger process of scrutinizing scientific research, is the interactions among scientists, even with competing ideas, in such publications. Where I think we cross the bounds, into “Fake News” territory, is when, immediately upon publication in a Journal, a University PR department, pushes out a release to all the media, often with WILD claims, not representative of the research itself. Or publications such as Scientific American, pick up the paper, and push out a poor Laypersons analysis, without any critical review.