[trhway]

>peer review process was never intended as a sufficiently strong filter to ensure that bad science was never published in the first place.

peer review is basically an artifact of and a business process solely for the purpose of commercial science publishing, ie. it is a commercial product quality control. Peer review pretty much killed scientific debate as it amplifies the dogma and makes questioning of it nearly impossible. Even during Dark Ages people were challenging dogma more deeply and freely (even though doing so carried the risk of being burnt at stake) than the scientists risk doing today. Back then there were public debates, and today we have anonymous peer review instead - how is that for the progress...

>The point is to get it such that it isn't wasting everyone's time to read it

this is what you have your students for (depending on the complexity of the work - seniors and/or PhD students). Like puppies they need something to work their teeth on :) Finding flaws/errors/etc. is a good training, and it makes the students a real, though minor, participants and partners in doing of the actual current science, and being such a lowly grunts they get to focus on finding real issues/errors, fact checking/etc. instead of higher level opining.