When a Nobel Prize winner gets 13 retractions on their peer reviewed publications...Ugh. Grateful that there are other scientists fact checking, but still, this is such a problem. The incentives are misaligned.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/09/13/nobel-prize-winner-tallies-two-more-retractions-bringing-total-to-13/

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17 a while back... he got some reinstated?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03032-9

All prizes end up getting gamed. Best to discount them as a signal of value.