I feel like the field and the journals in psychology have a history of being and currently are quite fragile. I have taken a couple of examples and done some simulations and come to the conclusion that the kinetic fragility index of the field is about the same as amorphous silicon dioxide most the time.

And as anyone will tell you if your building a house of that material. It is vital that you ensure no one around is looking critically at it. So you should paint it with a brick pattern, and ensure nothing heavier than a feather is ever thrown towards it.

In that regards it seems the journal in this case agrees, as they seriously resisted a scientific rebuttal of a piece until they realized they could not prevent it. Had they had integrity (which I believe we can model analogue to a high Young’s modulus, I haven’t yet finished simulations to give a precise number of how high it should be for the journal) then they would have been thrilled at the chance to adjust their building to not include the original material.