petersuber, "The number of #retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records…Retractions are rising at a rate that outstrips the growth of scientific papers."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03974-8PS: We can all list some of the factors at work here, and we should. My start: Paying more attention to where a work is published, and the fact of publication itself, than to the quality of what is published.