I think you're mistaken about the quality of journals. They work most of the time, although the anomalies you mention do occur. If it was so easy to publish cra

I think you're mistaken about the quality of journals. They work most of the time, although the anomalies you mention do occur. If it was so easy to publish crap on journals as you suggest, these same journals would not be so prestigious and used as an evaluation tool by university departments worldwide.