Scientific peer review is another facit of civilization that its current design does not allow it to scale well. More and more people are being involved in the process, but the qualityis forever going down.
Yes that’s right. It’s a scaling problem and there isn’t a clear answer. It’s easy to complain about it though haha. I think what is happening is science is atomitizing. People are publishing smaller amounts or simply creating ideas from nothing (like that science advances paper on hacker news a couple days ago that created a hydrogen rich crust from thin air).