Comic #4353: the-bones-speak

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Panel 1: Person 1: What did the mystic bones say?
Person 2: Terrible news. Terrible.

Panel 2: Person 1: I rolled the bones, and they said you would get a good diagnosis from the doctor.
Person 2: That's not terrible news!

Panel 3: Person 2: I went to write you, but then it occurred to me that, hey, I've got like a sample size of one here. And it's not double blind.

Panel 4: Person 2: So, I've got 99 other people and rolled bones for them. Long story short, it turns out my predictions aren't any better than guesses.
Person 1: In fact, given that they might confidently mislead you, they're probably worse.

Panel 5: Person 1: I'm doing some clinical trials now to see if it helps to look at pig entrails, or monitor the motions of a poisoned chicken, but… I'm not super hopeful.

Panel 6: Person 2: I feel so adrift.
Person 1: Isn't it amazing nobody else has noticed this?!

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