Nature is affectionately known amongst the research community (mostly those who have not had a Nature paper) as the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Nature has been responsible for some publishing disasters - cold fusion comes to mind but the other journals should not gloat.
Here are a couple of articles about why science is often wrong
The Truth Wear Out
Significance Chasing
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1. Cold fusion was not a publishing disaster or any other kind of disaster. It was replicated by hundreds of major labs. I have 1,400 peer-reviewed journal papers on cold fusion from the library at Los Alamos.
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For much more information and hundreds of papers on this subject see:
http://lenr-canr.org/