Alkaline Water Cures Cancer
Claim: Drinking alkaline water neutralizes bodily acidity to prevent or cure cancer.
Bullshit Meter
Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.
Physics vs. mind loop
Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?
Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.
Bio & cult hazard
48.6%Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.
Topological fingerprint
The structural profile of the claim on five axes.
- Empirical rigor
- 21.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 18.0%
- Rhetorical fog
- 22.9%
- Conspiracy
- 12.8%
- Psychosocial
- 14.6%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
15.2%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
55.0%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect1.7%
- Motte-and-bailey10.8%
- Stolen jargon85.5%
Guru roulette
35.2%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 64.8%
- Special gift needed14.0%
- Contradicting experts14.7%
- "Skeptics block it"6.4%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.1%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science0.8%
- 🩹Degenerative patching49.8%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon40.9%
- 🦴Fossil in amber8.4%
Tin-foil hat reactor
13.7%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed