I did a PhD in theoretical physics and I was not impressed by the pear review responses I got on my paper. It was almost always very shallow comments. Which is not suppressing given that at least in that corner of physics pear review was unpaid and unrecognised work.
If you already did the work to make a high quality paper, then peer review probably won’t add much. But the point is actually to prevent poor quality, incorrect research from getting through, and to raise the quality of publications as a whole.
My PhD was on computational physics, and yeah, the peer review didn’t add much to my papers. But because I knew it was there, I made sure to put a ton of work to make sure it was error free and every part of it was high quality. If I knew I could get the same reward of publication by being sloppy or lazy, I might be tended to do that. I certainly put orders of magnitude more effort into my papers than I do to my blog posts.
I certainly don’t think peer review is perfect, or that every post should be peer reviewed or anything. But I think that research that has to pass that bar tends to be superior to work that doesn’t.
If you already did the work to make a high quality paper, then peer review probably won’t add much. But the point is actually to prevent poor quality, incorrect research from getting through, and to raise the quality of publications as a whole.
My PhD was on computational physics, and yeah, the peer review didn’t add much to my papers. But because I knew it was there, I made sure to put a ton of work to make sure it was error free and every part of it was high quality. If I knew I could get the same reward of publication by being sloppy or lazy, I might be tended to do that. I certainly put orders of magnitude more effort into my papers than I do to my blog posts.
I certainly don’t think peer review is perfect, or that every post should be peer reviewed or anything. But I think that research that has to pass that bar tends to be superior to work that doesn’t.