Amber Gold
Claim: Amber Gold is a safe and profitable gold investment.
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
7.3%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
- 28.7%
- Magic & dogma
- 11.9%
- Rhetorical fog
- 33.5%
- Conspiracy
- 18.4%
- Psychosocial
- 9.8%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
33.5%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
47.0%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect44.4%
- Motte-and-bailey33.0%
- Stolen jargon7.5%
Guru roulette
59.4%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 40.6%
- Special gift needed19.3%
- Contradicting experts35.0%
- "Skeptics block it"5.1%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.2%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.5%
- 🩹Degenerative patching28.6%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon63.1%
- 🦴Fossil in amber6.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
20.6%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 2/5 · A few bad actors