Is Peer reviewing so essential?

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

Johanna Nichols wrote:
Self-publishing bypasses peer review, and peer review is a much more
important function of journal publication than boosting careers is.  Peer
review is so essential to distinguishing science from pseudoscience that I
don't think it should be bypassed, at least not very often.
Johanna Nichols = 
Is Peer reviewing so essential? Would Bruno's, Galileo's, Copernicus', Einstein's theories have been published, if they had been peer reviewed? Peer reviewing is good for trivial or average books and articles without new scientific information. Don't you think so? How many articles of young linguists which are not trivial are rejected by journals? All? I wouldn't be surprised. Be well, Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk