[BitWielder1]

That's what peer review is supposed to uncover.
Instead, dissenting voices were ostracized.

[YogicCowboy]

Peer Review is the modern equivalent of feudal guild coupled with church hierarchy: Destroy any competitors and punish any heretics. They are gatekeepers.

I have a background in the physical sciences, and my ears are deaf to any appeal to the ostensible authority of peer review. Let the science speak for itself.