Even people who have Ph.D. sometimes don’t pick up on weaknesses of a paper, like in the case of amsgrad.
The review process of many of journals is too gerontocratic, and fixed in their views, which could lead to acceptance of mediocre papers and rejection of better ones. That said most people use ArXiV to put their work in the open, sort of to stake a claim and them submit to a journal.
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