Peer Review Should Continue After Publication

[...]some view journals as a place to deposit only vetted and established work for posterity. Common errors in articles include poor research methods, misused or incorrect statistical analysis, avoidance of alternate explanations, overgeneralization of results, selective reporting, and fraud, but the most common problems are methodological errors (using the wrong techniques) or study design errors (sometimes deliberately, to create an effect).3,4 Altman calls these scandals and attributes them to poor quality control and the publish-or-perish climate.3,5 Readers may not understand the methodology and depend on the peer reviewers to sort out errors; readers trust that someone has looked at the data and judged it as scientifically valid.