- Springer claims that the error was made by an autonomous gent, i.e. a gentleman who used to work for Springer but doesn't work there anymore.
https://www.science.org/content/article/springer-nature-restores-max-planck-s-mysteriously-retracted-papers
John Carlos Baez
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