LGBT shuts down science

[I_am_not_mafia]

Here are some of the critisism of peer review.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/

Slow and expensive
Inconsistent
Bias
Abuse of peer review

One if it's suggestions was an openness of the process and ideas.  Which I would agree with.

The final step was, in my mind, to open up the whole process and conduct it in real time on the web in front of the eyes of anybody interested. Peer review would then be transformed from a black box into an open scientific discourse. Often I found the discourse around a study was a lot more interesting than the study itself. Now that I have left I am not sure if this system will be introduced.

From the conclusion:

Nevertheless, it is likely to remain central to science and journals because there is no obvious alternative,

This is the thing about science. It is self correcting. It can even improve the scientific method, which is what is happening here. But if someone has a superior alternative to peer review then please do say. As it is though, no one has come up with a better alternative and until they do peer review will stay.