Two recent examples on PubPeer show that journals with impact factors >10 can publish obviously absolute garbage. Their procedures don't seem to have included a step where a human read the manuscript...
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Replying to @BorisBarbour
Impact factor of 11.5, published an article about baldness being a risk factor for death from COVID-19 that did not control for agehttps://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(20)30948-8/fulltext …
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Replying to @JamesGWood_UNSW @BorisBarbour
It's exactly what I expect from a leading journal 
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