While a person needs to seek out good sources, common sense should help you decide. Can a man become a woman? Is banning the police a good idea? I am finding that most well researched, reliable sources might be full of shit.
BTW, it is much more convenient to believe these sources than it is to ponder on their conclusions.
Peer review is under attack due to massive data breaches exposing reviewers (like the recent OpenReview breach), the rise of AI manipulation (prompt injection to inflate scores), and widespread issues like fraud from paper mills, incompetent/biased reviewers, ad hominem attacks, and overwhelming workloads, all eroding trust in a system already fragile from institutional self-preservation and publication pressure. These challenges, from data leaks and AI vulnerabilities to outright fraud, create a crisis for academic integrity, making it harder to ensure quality research