That’s why this whole journal peer review thing is bullshit. There’s a better solution: read pre prints and let people rank/discuss them as organic peer review.
I don’t know what the answer is, and I’ve been worried for a while that we are putting blind faith in “science” which just lines up with our preferred worldview. Maybe the answer is simply to use science, however it is performed, to inform, not guide, policy, and always keep in mind that what science believes has a non-zero chance of being politically-driven itself.