A retraction can itself be wrong, and be worth retracting.

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  A writer should keep a public list of the things they got significantly wrong, so that readers can judge their credibility.

  That a retraction can itself need retracting is a hazard of keeping the list at all: entry 47 on his page records him withdrawing an accusation and then, a year later, withdrawing the withdrawal. Without the practice there is nothing to be wrong about twice.

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