How many ducks do you need to line up to get a publication retracted?

Description

Researchers with a track record of widespread, consistently unreliable publications have a large number of unretracted publications, for which there are also concerns about their reliability, and for which no public notification of the concerns exists. An institution directed the author to correct or retract some publications. He didn’t. 

Who is harmed by this? Not the publisher, not the institution, not the authors, but the people who actually matter, those who read the unreliable papers and make decisions and take actions based upon them. Ultimately, patients are harmed by receiving treatments based upon unreliable evidence.