> Peer review is a joke. Peer reviewers don’t look at your data and the programs you used to analyze it. They don’t look at your experimental apparatus, they do

> Peer review is a joke. Peer reviewers don’t look at your data and the programs you used to analyze it. They don’t look at your experimental apparatus, they don’t repeat your experiment, they don’t talk to the subjects you interviewed, at best they can spot obvious “red flags”. if those were the worst problems with peer review, we'd be in a much better place. Your peer reviewers are frequently higher status scientists working (competing) in the same research area you are trying to publish in. Generally, they do not want their own work outshined or overthrown.