The Cost of Peer Review

I think that a major cost of peer review actually happens in people's heads when they are conceiving of their research and that can't be solved at the end of the pipeline by like writing it in one way for this audience and writing it in a different way for another. If from the beginning what you're trying to do is to produce a piece of work that can satisfy three anonymous people and get them all to say yes to this then you're going to do something different than if you know that no matter what I'm going to be able to put this on the internet. Some work is best done when you are worried about facing down a firing squad at the end and some work is best