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If journals retract, they lose reputation. Thus they have incentives to ignore the problems, which explains the authors results.


but mostly likely they'll never publish that author again.


That doesn't seem to be the case in the story in the OP. The problematic author is still publishing at a great pace.


Which is weird... I guess reviewers are lacking in stats education.


I mean, those are pretty low tier journals but...


I did mean at the same journal.




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