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I don't think it's a discredit. arXiv is a preprint database, which means nothing is refereed. It's under "Computer Science", but that's just the author's own classification.

I don't think there's a way for the admins of arXiv to remove a paper. Once a paper is in the arXiv, it's there permanently: even the authors themselves can only update.[0]

E.g. this bit of quackery "Electromagnetic Signals from Bacterial DNA"[1]

[0] https://arxiv.org/help/withdraw

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3113v1



Crackpot stuff gets disappeared tho?


I don't think so. The link [1] I posted is crackpot.

See also: * https://motls.blogspot.com/2006/05/crackpot-papers-on-arxiv.... * https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605023 (dated 2006)




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