exclusively contacting the authors of the original paper and their supporters/collaborators/believers while not reaching out to me, Joe, Jessica, and others who have voiced their criticisms is a very clear journalistic choice about what soul searching means and whose soul we're searching.

It read more like an endorsement of prereg and reg reports which is bizarre given the actual, ya know, reasons for retraction. It’s like the MA wasn’t was even on the required reading list.