But the fraud is an inherent part of the process. There is no possible way to have peer review as it is done today without the fraud. The idea that this is a question of will, that "it would work if people were different" is stupid, because people aren't different.
Peer review is just getting other people's input. But, it is also an institutionalized process that has been corrupted. Get rid of fraudsters, institutions, and keep the part where you ask for other people's thoughts on your understandings of things.
Not really. Blaming peer review is like blaming experimentation or hypothesis. Scientific fraud is the problem, not science as a methodology.
But the fraud is an inherent part of the process. There is no possible way to have peer review as it is done today without the fraud. The idea that this is a question of will, that "it would work if people were different" is stupid, because people aren't different.
Peer review is just getting other people's input. But, it is also an institutionalized process that has been corrupted. Get rid of fraudsters, institutions, and keep the part where you ask for other people's thoughts on your understandings of things.