“Peer review” means something different from what it once meant. Now there is a strong political component and a very small scholarly component.
Peer review today is like the newspaper editorials and surveys of recognized leaders in the South in the 1950s. I’m sure that nearly 95% percent agreed that Blacks in the South were in favor of segregation.
If you pick whom you survey carefully and use the right encouragement, you can get any result you want. Sort of like peer review today.