Actually that's a statement of faith. There is plenty of bad science out there that could/should be more effectively ignored if not for the religious like faith in anything that ends up in a scientific journal.

Ironically enough, the peer review process itself is also not an empirically derived system either, it's another act of faith to assume it actually works well (hint, hint, it doesn't).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an enemy of science, but it's sad and honestly pathetic to see people suspend all reason and logic en masse in the name of so called "science" when the majority of people don't even know what that is, or just how rare it is for an individual to place the pursuit of truth above self interest.