The title of this week’s Big Deal Longread says it all: “The NIH public access policy did not harm biomedical journals.” Publishers raised all the usual alarms about the NIH policy—it would make it impossible for them to cover their cost (much less their 40% profit margins…) and peer review as we know it would come to a screeching halt. Science would fall apart. Dogs and cats would live together. You get the idea. Well, according to this week’s study, they were wrong.