> While noisy, this process generally means that really outrageous methodological errors or theoretical claims get weeded out. There is a fair amount of eviden

> While noisy, this process generally means that really outrageous methodological errors or theoretical claims get weeded out. There is a fair amount of evidence that this isn't true. In general, most statistics in scientific research aren't done by statisticians, and there are whole classes of methodological errors that are regularly not caught because the "peers" have the same lack of statistical education as the people whose papers they are reviewing.