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If there was a news site that purely had follow up to old stories, I'd subscribe. The media only provides it for things like trials that people continue paying attention to.

One reason people stall investigations is they know the press will forget after a few months.

I was going to suggest "oops.science" as a domain name but it's already parked...

In my case I knew of the aftermath because I work on the field and followed the reports of science writers such as Ed Yong and Carl Zimmer as well as the blog of Rosie Redfield, one of the microbiologists that took part in the testing and posterior refutation of the published results.

As a data point, I was (until just now) one of those people.

Media reporting in general has that problem.

Huh, so did I...