Agree. People act like peer review is this unshakeable tenant of the scientific method, when it only became widespread in the 70s and 80s. To my mind, papers wr

Agree. People act like peer review is this unshakeable tenant of the scientific method, when it only became widespread in the 70s and 80s. To my mind, papers written these days are usually a lot worse than those written before peer review, often due to the demands of that process (soften your language here, obscure your point there, cite thirty other papers unnecessarily just in case one of the authors is the reviewer).