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"malpractice" would have been not puling the story/issuing a retraction.
It seems like he had humility, but he put his name on an article that had false content that he didn't verify. That's not a mistake so much as it is neglect of due diligence. Simply checking if the important citations in his article were true would have saved him, but he didn't. I can only imagine how many journalists do this without getting caught.
Oh my bad I thought we were talking about the entire Ars team, not the individual author.