Isn't there a preliminary step before peer reviewers review an article for publication (otherwise they'll be flooded). My impression from the post was that it s

Isn't there a preliminary step before peer reviewers review an article for publication (otherwise they'll be flooded). My impression from the post was that it stopped at some point in the marketing/editorial pipeline - I.E. it wasn't adequate enough (for business reasons) to send to peer review. Though even so, your comment still stands (since I'm assuming whomever is in an editorial position has some kind of science background, at least at some of those journals).