<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">Peer review is supposed to be the quality assurance system for science</font></b>, weeding out the scientifically unreliable and reassuring readers of journals that they can trust what they are reading. <b><font color="#ff0000">In reality, however, it is ineffective, largely a lottery, anti-innovatory, slow, expensive, wasteful of scientific time, inefficient, easily abused, prone to bias, unable to detect fraud and irrelevant.</font></b><div><br><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/content/the-peer-review-drugs-dont-work">https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/content/the-peer-review-drugs-dont-work</a></div></div>