[microcolonel]

> Peer review is a cornerstone of academics

It isn't, it was a mistake trying to bring it everywhere. Peer review is a way for your jealous colleagues to stop your novel, disruptive, or counter-intuitive research from being published; and while it may serve some purpose in some limited fields, for most fields it does little else but suppress good science.

If your peers understood where your field was going, they'd be doing the research, not reviewing it.

Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't have journals with editors, but peer review is not necessary to good science, and in most fields it is a parasite.