What an author did when paper was proved wrong

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An author faced a significant challenge when a paper co-written a decade ago was proven wrong by colleagues in Canada. The response published highlighted fundamental flaws in the methodology proposed in the original paper. The author, a statistician with 20 years of experience in ecology, expressed a desire for greater maturity and reasonableness in society regarding the acceptance of being proven wrong, especially on important issues.

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An article by an author whose paper was proved wrong
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02870-z

As a statistician with 20 years of experience in the field of ecology, I recently faced a challenging moment. In August, some colleagues in Canada published a response1 to a paper that I co-wrote a decade ago, showing that the method my co-authors and I proposed back then is fundamentally flawed.
 
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An excellent response. I wish a significantly larger portion of society would be as mature and reasonable about being proved wrong about anything, let alone something important to them.
 
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