Ideally, their profile(1) should allow them to quickly admit they were wrong on such a simple issue.
Academia doesn't have a culture of admitting mistakes. Retracting a paper is typically seen as something shameful rather than progress (by scrutinizing results).
Combined with pressure to publish and sometimes limited engineering skills it leads to a volatile mix. There are a lot of published results that are not reproducible when you'd try (not saying anything new here, see replication crisis).
In its native environment, the scientists reserves its fiercest attacks for its competitors: by fighting tooth and nail, it can render its environment uninhabitable for nearly all but the most determined adversary. Sometimes, this ensures access to desirable mates, but not always.
Academia doesn't have a culture of admitting mistakes. Retracting a paper is typically seen as something shameful rather than progress (by scrutinizing results).
Combined with pressure to publish and sometimes limited engineering skills it leads to a volatile mix. There are a lot of published results that are not reproducible when you'd try (not saying anything new here, see replication crisis).