Peer Review isn't necessarily a problem, the issue is that how it's being used is a problem. It's become only about consensus building which is the main complaint here, but that doesn't mean removing peer-review as a system.
Peer-review should involve other people in the field tearing at your research to pick holes in it and find out where you are fucking up.
There is a concern that this could lead to science becoming to establishmentarian, and we have seen that in the past with Quantum Mechanics and Fourier Series'. However, there is also an important point about trying to make sure that established science is not simply overthrown by some new academic or intellectual fad. What we need to fix is Peer-Review promoting intellectual fads instead of maintaining scientific rigor.
Peer review puts zealots and activists in positions to rubber stamp conclusions they like and obstruct conclusions they don't. The aggregare effect of this over decades you can observe for yourself.
Peer Review isn't necessarily a problem, the issue is that how it's being used is a problem. It's become only about consensus building which is the main complaint here, but that doesn't mean removing peer-review as a system.
Peer-review should involve other people in the field tearing at your research to pick holes in it and find out where you are fucking up.
There is a concern that this could lead to science becoming to establishmentarian, and we have seen that in the past with Quantum Mechanics and Fourier Series'. However, there is also an important point about trying to make sure that established science is not simply overthrown by some new academic or intellectual fad. What we need to fix is Peer-Review promoting intellectual fads instead of maintaining scientific rigor.
We need to incentivize reproduction.
Peer review puts zealots and activists in positions to rubber stamp conclusions they like and obstruct conclusions they don't. The aggregare effect of this over decades you can observe for yourself.
We also may need to privatize research funding.