I can’t speak to the aftermath but even interfering in the publication of the paper is pretty dramatic. If Google had let it go through and not said anything, o

I can’t speak to the aftermath but even interfering in the publication of the paper is pretty dramatic. If Google had let it go through and not said anything, or at worst published a milquetoast response saying they disagree but respect the discourse, I don’t think the paper would have had half the attention. If your scientists publish a paper that is not even wrong, do you ask them to retract it? Shouldn’t the response from the larger academic community be enough?