"insiders know good from bad" while often true, science and scientific journals do not serve solely the scientific community, they serve humanity, which includ

"insiders know good from bad" while often true, science and scientific journals do not serve solely the scientific community, they serve humanity, which includes the non-professional public. while you may be an honest person and would never knowingly abuse wrong information to harm others, gain, or advance a broken agenda, plenty of people do. the "vaccines lead to autism" people, for example, do that. the history of science shows that careful, accurate and correctly performed experiments and publications are what give humanity progress. their absence, history has again shown, causes humanity to retreat, sometimes with disastrous consequences. this is not an idle, "i sure wish more 'scientists' could publish" debate, at some level the very question of human progress is at stake.