Peer review is the specific process of sending your well edited manuscript to a select few reviewers of a journal in order to get that manuscript published in t

Peer review is the specific process of sending your well edited manuscript to a select few reviewers of a journal in order to get that manuscript published in that journal. It is different from having your results available to your peers, which I'm not sure they did that here, but point being peer review is this specific time consuming process (that can take months, sometimes years).