Yeah. Academic culture is totally broken, they institutionally assume at every level that everyone is honest and fraud doesn't exist. Therefore if someone point

Yeah. Academic culture is totally broken, they institutionally assume at every level that everyone is honest and fraud doesn't exist. Therefore if someone points out problems with a paper or its data, it must be merely a mistake and the civilized thing to do is ask for a correction. There appear to be no limits to how absurd this phenomenon can get. Here's an example: https://pubpeer.com/publications/7611C2EEE5789028895D8BD02A151E https://pubpeer.com/publications/7611C2EEE5789028895D8BD02A1...