Ashwagandha Causes Gut, Liver, and Fertility Problems
Claim: Ashwagandha consumption causes gastrointestinal distress, liver damage, and fertility problems.
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?
Works physically, independent of belief.
Bio & cult hazard
28.1%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
- 81.0%
- Magic & dogma
- 6.7%
- Rhetorical fog
- 8.3%
- Conspiracy
- 4.5%
- Psychosocial
- 6.5%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
0.2%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
11.5%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect7.7%
- Motte-and-bailey4.5%
- Stolen jargon5.0%
Guru roulette
9.2%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 90.8%
- Special gift needed2.9%
- Contradicting experts4.3%
- "Skeptics block it"2.1%
Fossil & dogma clock
36.6%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science60.6%
- 🩹Degenerative patching12.5%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon13.1%
- 🦴Fossil in amber13.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
3.6%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed