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Not in my fields, at any rate.

And there is a credentialed peer-reviewing profession. You can find it at every university, research center, museum, or any other facility that hires professional scientists. I take the system very seriously, as does every professional scientist I've ever encountered.

Peer review is a flawed process, but the issue raised by this article actually has nothing to do with peer review at all. These predatory journals don't really use peer review - if you pay the requested fees, the journal will publish whatever shit they're given. Pay to play. The vast majority of these fraudulent "studies" would never survive peer review. The problem is thus not peer review, but the existence of "journals" that mimic peer-reviewed publications.

And I stand by what I said - in spite of its flaws, there is no alternative.