Peer review does not mean that the actual experiment, study or computer simulation was replicated by peers. It's more of a gatekeeper function. For example, if

Peer review does not mean that the actual experiment, study or computer simulation was replicated by peers. It's more of a gatekeeper function. For example, if a paper entitled "Password Security Best Practices" suggested that it was OK to use your mother's maiden name as a password, then the peers reviewing the paper would flag it as nonsense and require the author to revise the paper accordingly. But the point about readability is a good one. Papers are meant to communicate. Poor writing increases the friction readers experience, which diminishes communication.