For Better Science – By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Here is a September 2020 retraction from Cell Cycle . The editors sound defensive and aggrieved, for reasons we can only guess in the absence of most of the story.
And a 2020 Corrigendum , in which the journal's editors drew a discreet veil over two Figures afflicted with PCD (Photoshop-Compulsion Disorder) and allowed the authors to replace them with better visual compositions. The conclusions were not affected.
For Better Science – By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing