The article doesn't propose we do away with peer review, but rather that lay audiences stop pretending that peer review is a "gold standard" by which the quality of research can be judged. It's "gold standards" the author proposes to eliminate.
I get that. Sorry my reply wasn’t very clear. The article gives examples of how politicians and policymakers have “weaponized” peer review to silence critics. The author proposes moving away from peer review (and the gold standard it sometimes represents) as a way to solve this issue.
In my reply, I was just pointing out that peer review still plays an important role in the development of knowledge and I was wondering if alternative systems that could replace it would actually be feasible. That lead me somewhere off topic.
By the way, the “weaponization” of peer review is nothing new. You can see it used in the past to discredit research linking smoking or lead to health issues. You can also see of the possible risks or benefits (depending on your point of view) of rejecting peer reviewed research in the anti-vax movement.
