For starters we know that a lot of money is spent on it in terms of getting the end results. As you say the peer review is done by volunteers, but the final pro

For starters we know that a lot of money is spent on it in terms of getting the end results. As you say the peer review is done by volunteers, but the final product is then sold back to those same reviewers (or their institutions) for an insane markup. > or perhaps they believe that peer review is a valuable use of their time. Or perhaps they believe that if they don’t do that work then bad papers will be published under the authoritative rubber stamp of the journals and that they will not need to spend the same amount of time down the road finding out if/how the fascinating study is wrong after having paid 40$ for the pdf.