You start with the assumption that academia works by ensuring that there are no errors in papers.
I think you misunderstood the question. The assumption of the post is explicitly that we expect that there will be errors in papers, and we are just asking how the errors in those papers are being discovered, and how those discoveries are communicated.
The question is: Given that a lot of ideas will be wrong and confused, how does academia notice and communicate those confusions?
I think you misunderstood the question. The assumption of the post is explicitly that we expect that there will be errors in papers, and we are just asking how the errors in those papers are being discovered, and how those discoveries are communicated.
The question is: Given that a lot of ideas will be wrong and confused, how does academia notice and communicate those confusions?