[jMyles]

This is an example of the sort of cases in which I worry that experts become clouded by zealotry; I think it's more likely that a generalist-at-a-distance will poke the right holes in the methodology of these kinds of studies.

[username90]

I wonder why they don't have independent statisticians review each paper doing statistics? Seems weird and abusable that only people from the same subfield reviews the papers.

[m_rcin]

It's hard enough to find reviewers in the same field. I imagine finding statisticians to review papers from fields they don't care about would be problematic. You probably know that reviewers work for free.