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And you can't get through peer review if you did. That process maintains consensus. Albert Einstein failed peer review the one time he was subjected to it. New

• specialp 4y ago
  He was asked to address some questions and make revisions. He was so aggravated that his paper was subject to peer review at all that he withdrew it. But his subsequent submission to another journal did incorporate some of the referees concerns. Einstein was a great scientist but he too was wrong sometimes. [1] His 1905 seminal papers were not peer reviewed per-se but the journal's editor who accepted the paper was Max Planck! So it was reviewed by another legendary physicist. These days science has branched off into such specialized areas that another specialist in the field is needed for review. Whether that should be an anonymous referee, or someone else it is still valuable to catch errors and determine the soundness of the techniques. Also the selections of those peers is something for debate too. [1] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.2117822 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.211782...