Contributing to the spread of misinformation, retracted articles are often easier to access 
- Often become free to the public 
- Articles are not always marked clearly as being retracted

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- financial incentives (America and UK: amount of publication affects a scientist’s ability to get promotions, tenured positions, and funding on future projects. China: Researchers are paid when they reach a certain number of publications. This promotes rushed, unreliable research and/or fake peer reviews.)


Why does misinformation get spread?

Bar-Ilan, J., & Halevi, G. (2020). Retracted articles: The scientific version of fake news. In R. Greifeneder, M. Jaffé, E. J. Newman, & N. Schwarz (Eds.), The psychology of fake news: Accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation (pp. 47–70). London: Routledge. 

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