Ancient Aliens
Claim: Extraterrestrial beings visited Earth in ancient times and played a crucial role in shaping early human civilization, technology, and religions.
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
19.6%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
- 9.5%
- Magic & dogma
- 37.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 32.3%
- Conspiracy
- 34.6%
- Psychosocial
- 12.1%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
13.1%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
48.7%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect46.7%
- Motte-and-bailey25.8%
- Stolen jargon23.4%
Guru roulette
Does the result depend on who performs it?
Not applicable
Fossil & dogma clock
98.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.7%
- 🩹Degenerative patching55.1%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon22.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber20.5%
Tin-foil hat reactor
33.4%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 2/5 · A few bad actors