[yorwba]

> Help me understand how you can coherently want scientific research to be free, rather than locked up in paid journals, and at the same time believe that unpaid peer reviewers should respond to every submission with a kind of counter- research project to rebut the findings of those submissions?

Because of that incoherence, it's not what I want. I support paying reviewers for the important work they do. If the research is of a kind that should be available to the public for free, then that's a job for research-funding organizations, who could explicitly pay for that cost (rather than implicitly by granting funds to scientists who then end up working as reviewers for free).