> Darwin's work wasn't peer reviewed. Nor Einstein's

Except it was…? This is absurdly ahistorical and the fact that you cross disciplines in trying to make an incorrect argument questions whether you are in science at all.

The structure of peer review in Darwin’s time was different, where experts wrote monographs and gave lectures at symposia that then led to letters among their peers. Which is what happens now, if you take a step back.

The volume of new work these days is incompatible with the older informal system, and is in some ways our new paradigm is superior as there is a formal period in which new works are reviewed.

Sorry. I meant "peer reviewed prior to publication" as the phrase is presently used. I thought that was obvious.

What you're calling "peer review" is what I would call "discussed" or "debated" which it certainly was.

I dispute your claim that the new paradigm is superior.