Indeed, over reliance on scientific journals has brought science to some sort of unhealthy state, which manifests itself more in the automatic paper generators available online that succeed to publish papers in peer reviewed journals than the occasional false and/or fraudulent results, as the former highlights how automated the process can be, how anyone, without any incentive of extending the boundaries of human knowledge and merely focusing on getting academic reputation, can achieve it.

However, as opposed to what seems to be suggested here. The false notion is that the self-governance of science means it is upon other scientists and the scientific society to check it, and as that forms a closed society which might fall into increasingly protecting its own reputation and hence funding instead of dedicating its efforts to keep all that is called scientific results as truthful as possible. However, the scientific method at its core means that it is something that literally anyone can check, anyone shall be able to understand, replicate and question. The most basic requirement for something to even be considered science is that it outlines exactly how its falsehood can be verified, so that anyone can check that the statement is false.