The Pencil Pusher Effect: You Cannot Review Code You Refused to Open

This publication documents a naturally occurring interaction sequence between a quantum error correction software developer and a community curator on the Zenodo platform who claimed to have reviewed code she refused to open, and identified "fundamental conceptual and mathematical errors" in a QLDPC implementation she never downloaded. Version 2.0 appends the complete source code (819 lines) and test suite (441 lines) for the software in question, formatted as a PDF as requested, so the reader may identify the errors themselves. The authors could not find them. The 67+ passing tests also could not find them. The paper formally defines the Pencil Pusher Effect: a curatorial dysfunction in which a reviewer declines to examine submitted material, issues a confident technical verdict anyway, and defends that verdict with increasing bureaucratic formality. The code remains available as a ZIP file on GitHub. You cannot run a PDF. DOI (QEC Software): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18579786