I'm a fan of empiricism myself, but if you read the work of polymaths like John Ionidis and his paper on the reproducability crisis, you will understand that the peer review system has become so perverted, that they have undermined trust in science.

If we are to get back on track, we need a new decentralised open protocol where people can publish scientific findings, and not a handful of centralised journals where industry PA's who work for the same pharma giants all just pass each other their papers and circlejerk each other and claim that it was peer reviewed.