> Junior researchers are also pressured into acquiescing to the peer reviewers rather than having an actual scientific debate Yes. When I was teaching at the g

> Junior researchers are also pressured into acquiescing to the peer reviewers rather than having an actual scientific debate Yes. When I was teaching at the graduate school level, doctoral students sometimes came to me for advice about how they should respond to peer reviewer comments. Those comments were usually constructive and worthwhile, but sometimes they seemed to indicate either a misunderstanding or an ideological bias on the part of the reviewer. (This was in the social sciences, where ideology comes with the territory.) But even in those latter cases, the junior researchers just wanted to know how they could best placate the reviewer and get their paper published. None had the nerve, time, or desire for an actual scholarly debate.