@Knight_of_the_First_State @mhjohnson Peer Review wasn't really a big thing until the 60's, and I'm firmly convinced that it was created solely as a marketing tool for scientific journals.

Obviously, having some labcoat with the same biases and conflicts of interest read over your paper and say "welp, looks good to me!" does nothing to validate any claims made in that paper. However, godless savages have taken up "peer review" as the latest and greatest state-sponsored religion.