[totalZero]

Journals operate in an information brokerage business and they are compensated to ensure reasonable review of what they publish. What you wrote would be applicable to something like reddit but you can't accept funds for a job that you don't carry out.

[matthewdgreen]

The problem here is that journals are relying on an open source peer review process for which they pay nothing, and then trying to cash in on the fruits of that. Blaming the reviewers is like blaming the medieval serfs for the fact that their landlords sold you rotten grain.

[watwut]

Even if they were paid, it would not check for this. Peer review checks formalities, obvious methodological problems, citations, that sort of stuff. It is not an independent study meant to validate data themselves.

[watwut]

What you wrote is false and suggests you do not know how science works.

Peer review does not mean fraudulent studies can't go through, it is not even meant for that. Reasonable review does not excludes these.