People keep saying peer review is just a sanity check but no one seems to really grasp it. I get it because internet discourse has overblown the validity of pee

People keep saying peer review is just a sanity check but no one seems to really grasp it. I get it because internet discourse has overblown the validity of peer reviewed articles to an insane degree. Peer review is just a sanity check. Authors and scientists and studies and papers are important or not independent of the peer review process.