What Is Not Perverse Publishing?

That authors are biased toward their own work, overestimating their novelty, importance and correctness, is considered self‑evident. If that is true, on what grounds are editors and potential reviewers assumed to be less biased? Moreover, could they introduce even more bias? Of course. What is the solution? Transparency within publishing... Realistically, these questions and answers should suffice, yet, if I stopped here, most people would not even consider this a "work". Even when problems and solutions are straightforward, the expectation is that especially long‑standing problems require complex and therefore verbose solutions, even though long‑standing problems and their solutions can be simple. What is transparency? If transparency were such an alien concept that it would require clarification, I am inclined to think no explanation could possibly suffice, but I will try anyway.