Springer Nature retracted two papers by Max Planck (published in the 1940s) in 2011 using an automated bot that flagged them as copyright violations—a mistake, since republishing the same work in different journals was common practice at the time and even Einstein did it. The retractions have since been widely criticized as an embarrassing example of journals automating retraction decisions without human review, and the Science article notes that the flagged PDFs now return blank pages. The core story is real and well-sourced, though the post's framing ("how stupid it all is") reflects opinion rather than fully explaining why the bot made the error.