Yes, but the Royal Society didn’t publish it without a critical look by peers.
The “peers” being themselves, for all we can see. We decline to name them the curiate of our Rome, thank you very much.
And the world-famed peer-reviewed Lancet, in the worst piece of medical statistics ever, reported the deaths of 655,000 dead Iraquis. Peer-review isn't quite the infallible safety net you imagine it to be.
Unless the reviewers considered the conclusion so desireable that they didn’t want to waste too much time on it. Reviewers are busy people.