> Indeed, it is essential. But, in the age of the internet, there is a lot wrong with peer review conducted by a small handful of people selected by a journal p

> Indeed, it is essential. But, in the age of the internet, there is a lot wrong with peer review conducted by a small handful of people selected by a journal publisher. The whole idea of a journal should be obsolete. Or it isn't obsolete, but the reasons for it are different. I feel like a lot of technologies that once primarily had value as means of dissemination, now have more value as a means of filtering to make a firehouse manageable by humans, so to speak.