alt Hacker Newslikewise, taking a wrecking ball to systems refined over centuries should come with some burden of proof for the positive claim that a tool can replace an institution. most times this has happened before, we've had to strengthen credentialing requirements to stop people from dying
The burden of proof is on peer review not the other way around. Peer review is a fairly modern invention post WWII. Prior to that “peer review” looked very different.