You misunderstand what&#x27;s going on.  If <i>I</i> publish a paper people want to know what the data <i>I</i> found suggests and that&#x27;s it.<p>A reader can then build there own chain of logic combining several papers with prior knowledge.  Further, if someone retracts a paper they can update that chain of logic.  But, if a paper is based on another paper that was retracted then it&#x27;s chain of logic is suspect.<p>PS: Bayesian reasoning is fine for meta analysis though.