Einstein's four seminal papers from 1905 in Annalen der Physik were peer-reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief Max Planck and the Co-Editor Wilhelm Wien, both scientists of some reknown who later won Nobel Prizes.
It is true that Einstein later was highly critical of the process of peer review, when his draft paper was shown to other specialists before publication.
Modern peer review became popular in the mid 20th century. Wikipedia's article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_peer_review discusses the process, history, and controversies about scholarly peer review.
Opening the mail, & checking to see if it came to the correct address, is not peer review.
Science papers that mention aether are automatically dumped into the waste paper bucket today (or returned) by office assistants who have never done much science, the papers dont reach the editors.
Einsteinists have to get around this by calling the aether quantum foam, or dynamic space, or vacuum energy or somesuch.
Einsteinists rule.
But the www & youtube etc is slowly changing things.
The aether will return.
I would award Nobels to ..
Demjanov -- for his invention & work with his twinmedia MMX which confirmed aetherwind, & for his discovery of the proper calibration of MMXs.
Cahill -- for his inventions & work on the aetherwind & aetherwind turbulence, & for his separate discovery of the proper calibration of MMXs.
Ranzan -- for his explanation of the dynamic steady state cellular universe, including his explanation of redshift.
aetherist -- for his discovery of electons, being the main cause of electricity on a wire, especially for his screw-thread X.
Pollack -- for his discovery of EZ water, & for his explanation of electrical weather.
On the electricity side (in addition to aetherist & Pollack), we have Catt & Bishop & Wakefield, jointly, for showing that old electricity (electron drift) is false.
Crothers -- for showing that Einstein's equations for GTR etc are false.
Pierre Marie Robitaille -- for explaining that the CMBR is false.
Plus we have all of the aetherists throo history, now dead -- Morley Miller Ives & many others.
Arp, & Shnoll, now dead -- for their work.