You guys didn't have peer review? ;-)-The current peer review is rather recent. I had some papers taken by reputable journals simple by sending them in and the editor liked them. Three while I was in the army over a two year period, only one with a co-author. My boss in my fellowship, Hellerstein, was internationally known. We submitted a few without any fighting.I published one while a fellow at Baylor, post-army, easily accepted by the J. Physiology. Of course, I wrote nothing but good papers with interesting results. ;-)