I think another issue we have is that Mur had to put in roughly the amount of work needed to get a publication, without any public acknowledgment. He's a postdo

I think another issue we have is that Mur had to put in roughly the amount of work needed to get a publication, without any public acknowledgment. He's a postdoc, who should be spending time on getting sufficient quantity/quality of publications to warrant tenure or tenure track somewhere. This entire process was of benefit to science in general and the journal specifically, yet they refused to give him even the (academically lesser) credits of a comment published in their journal. To add some context: a postdoc position typically lasts 1 or 2 years. The investigation plus discussion with the journal easily took 4 months - at least a sixth of the good dr.'s time. And he's got nothing to show for it - he isn't even named in the retraction notice. In this case, it would have been trivial for the journal to do better... but they opted to do nothing, even after being notified of problems, until they received a thorough description. Which they then rejected. TLDR: the journal's editors, likely all tenured academics, refused to take action when notified and refused to give credit once a postdoc spent months of their time.