Good point, Hilary. I have been amazed at the articles retracted. I shouldn't be I suppose, but often the overall commentary and discussion following its publication/prepublication (and some of the papers were up for some significant time, too), and then later papers supporting the authors' work. Withdrawing such papers is now more a red flag that the authors are likely "over the target." The first "pandemic era" example was Pradhan et al's paper in January 2020 that pointed out something was fishy, what with there being relatively recent strains of HIV-1 sequences in the SARS2 virus.

Fauci got that retraction done with 2, maybe 3 telephone calls. Maybe he didn't even have to remind India that NIH/NIAID funds a LOT of scientific research there.

Remember his infamous remark "I AM the science?" It was accurate vis a vis the publishing establishment.