I'm not sure that this is necessarily a problem. Most working scientists know that preliminary studies are often wrong and just because it is published in some journal doesn't mean it's true. If there's merit to it then the scientific method will eventually settle upon the correct answer. This looks like someone outside the field just came across this news and had a visceral reaction, "Gasp! Most journal articles are wrong! We can't trust science!"

(Note that I'm talking only about hard natural sciences. Social sciences are another whole can of worms.)