A scandal has broken out in Taiwan concerning bogus peer review - apparently involving a Government minister. See
http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/11063 .

Comforting to think that nothing like this could possibly happen in climate science?

Ah, peer-review. Let me once more raise the spectre of Diederik Stapel. to demonstrate the infallibility of peer-review.