Post by Matt Blaze

@frincon @pluralistic I'm not in your field, so my experience is from a different angle here, but my conclusion is very different. I've gotten my share of ill-informed reviews, but I'm absolutely sure my published work is better (if less prolific) for having been through the process. Also, I've benefited from peer review in the papers I *read*, which are relatively free of the kind of glaring, time-wasting errors and irrelevancies that peer review is reasonably good at catching.