&gt;  and that there may be fundamental flaws in the peer review system<p>There are.<p>One problem is that there are too many papers to be reviewed, another is that the papers generally do not include complete datasets.  Also, where large volumes of data are involved it is common to perform computational transformations on that data to extract something; the source code and build process are not always described in such a way as to make the executable reproducible.<p>And those are just some of the problems with peer review, others include more human problems such as insufficient remuneration for the reviewer, reviewers who have too much at stake to give an unbiased review (whether too positive or too negative), too few reviewers with the necessary expertise, etc.<p>Even with competent and committed reviewers the system is flawed; unfortunately there doesn&#x27;t seem to be any alternative.