Peer review in practice often means you got 2 or 3 grad students who skimmed the paper and found it to have the right gestalt an impressive enough results. Revi

Peer review in practice often means you got 2 or 3 grad students who skimmed the paper and found it to have the right gestalt an impressive enough results. Reviewers aren't some magical wise expert committee with infinite focus and they don't do any kind of background "auditing". They get a stack of papers to review and don't usually spend more than a few hours on each. Judging by the quality of some reviews I've seen, many grad students take even less than an hour to write a "review". I think the general public has a way overinflated idea of what peer review means in day to day practice.