Cite disputed work to preserve record

When a later paper challenges or rejects an earlier study, that is a reason to cite it, not to erase it: citation documents the intellectual lineage, frames replication attempts, and lets readers judge how findings evolved. Omitting prior attempts on the grounds they were 'wrong' conflates critique with historical erasure and undermines cumulative science. — If journals and researchers treat disputable studies as irrelevant rather than as part of the record, public trust in scientific self‑correction and claims of novelty will weaken.