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The authors need to publicly and loudly retract the preprint and admit their errors.  

Not much chance of that happening. From the same article:

Addressing the critics, Stanford’s Ioannidis, professor of medicine and  biomedical data science at Stanford University, promised an expanded version of their study will be posted soon. “The results remain very robust,” he said.

[oldalum]

The authors need to publicly and loudly retract the preprint and admit their errors.  

Not much chance of that happening. From the same article:

Addressing the critics, Stanford’s Ioannidis, professor of medicine and  biomedical data science at Stanford University, promised an expanded version of their study will be posted soon. “The results remain very robust,” he said.