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My advisor made me publish inaccurate results in a good journal when I was unskilled and didn't know everything. I've come across this paper recently and I don't know what am I supposed to do in this situation. Any advice?

The story is simple. We had to write a paper in no time. We stumbled upon very stupid equation that we weren't able to solve. My advisor said that he has solved it, showed me the answer and said that if we won't publish it, I won't get my master and also I won't find money for my research.

We added some weird and intentionally complicated math to advocate the intentionally wrong answer. Mostly because we have proven that the answer gives consistent numerical simulations.

5 years later, the whole my research is based on this wrong answer. I'm writing my PhD. And I'm hating myself for agreeing to publish it. I've decided to leave the academia because of this mistake and the fact that my research is actually a trash. But what would be the right thing to do in my situation? Should I write to the journal, saying that I had published intentionally wrong result and therefore be a reason they add all of the co-athors of this paper (6 of them are currently working in academia) to a black list?