these are nothing like each other.
I only quoted this line of your post.
I'd like to explain how peer review and god are actually exactly the same thing.
We only see the society we live in not the one others talk about. Long ago people believed in a shrouded difficult to understand source of information called God whose knowledge filtered down to us through those who understood god and could explain gods knowledge to us.
How is this not exactly the same as what happens in the scientific community? I can see very clearly how the "word of god" can be the word of "peer review".
To the layman it is exactly the same. To both the scientist and the religious leader this is an insult because both will claim their knowledge is very real.
The solution is to expertly teach objective thinking to the coming generation and remind them that they will be more intelligent then their parents, just like their parents had a chance to be better educated then their parents etc through history.
To do this we need to learn from the mistake of the religions, they attempted to hide their God from the people and pretend special understanding. Once the people saw the holy men were not correct they lost their following and humanity is forgetting about God.
Science does not currently deliver knowledge or understanding to the people, it hides behind its built faith that the population has in science and now when the holy men of science are calling for action based on faith based on "peer review" we are not seeing the results, exactly like what happened to our faith in the religions.
Without easily understood knowledge being passed to the masses science has become exactly like the religions of old in the view of the world.
This problem is real and the scientific community needs to address it or we all run the risk of being overrun by the ignorant hoard. I side with the ignorant hoard a lot because I see their cause, science needs to be better.