Antidepressants Are Placebos

Claim: Antidepressants provide no genuine therapeutic benefit beyond the psychological effect of a placebo.

MIXED EVIDENCE Worldwide#antidepressants#placebo#psychiatry
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Bullshit score
48.6/ 100

Mixed signals

#71 · Mixed evidence

7-day change —How is this calculated?
Model confidence44%
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Search interest1 / 7d

Why this score?

  1. 01It exploits fear or uncertainty to push people to abandon verified protective or medical procedures for unproven alternatives.[Q10]

    Risk asymmetry · How the model answered: 80.4% · Bullshit weight: 1.00

  2. 02It interprets every contrary piece of evidence as proof of a deliberate conspiracy, data manipulation or a cover-up by outside institutions.[Q1]

    Error feedback · How the model answered: 77.1% · Bullshit weight: 1.00

  3. 03The system consists only of negating existing knowledge and offers no model of its own able to generate testable technical predictions.[Q6]

    Ockham's razor · How the model answered: 72.1% · Bullshit weight: 1.00

Score history

Oct 30, 2026
0255075100 48.6 Oct 30, 2026

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