What you propose is actually how it used to function until around the mid-20th century. Journals used to be very permissive when accepting papers with the edito

What you propose is actually how it used to function until around the mid-20th century. Journals used to be very permissive when accepting papers with the editor only doing a cursory check to make sure the paper wasn't total garbage. More info here: https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific-peer-review/ https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific...