Arxiv is pretty much for all.  What you call vouching is just endorsement, and it&#x27;s not peer review at all.<p>what I got Googling &#x27;pseudoscience arxiv&#x27; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;find&#x2F;all&#x2F;1&#x2F;all:+AND+marvin+herndon&#x2F;0&#x2F;1&#x2F;0&#x2F;all&#x2F;0&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;find&#x2F;all&#x2F;1&#x2F;all:+AND+marvin+herndon&#x2F;0&#x2F;1&#x2F;0&#x2F;al...</a><p>These titles wouldn&#x27;t even make it past HN&#x27;s front page, they would be flagged - by lay people with no background.<p>Let me emphasize: <i>arxiv is not peer-reviewed, it is an open publication platform.</i><p>Out of the above list, I only clicked through one - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;physics&#x2F;0510090" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;physics&#x2F;0510090</a> reading &quot;Teaching Earth Dynamics: What&#x27;s Wrong with Plate Tectonics Theory?&quot;<p>Quote:<p>&quot;I review what is wrong with plate tectonics theory ... and describe my new
Whole-Earth Decompression Dynamics Theory, which unifies the two previous,
dominant theories in a self-consistent manner. Along the way, I disclose details of what
real science is all about, details all too often absent in textbooks and classroom
discussions.&quot;<p>This wouldn&#x27;t make it past a HN reader.  &quot;I disclose details of what real science is all about.&quot; No peer would ever accept that, in any journal on any subject.