Astrology
Claim: Astrology claims that the relative positions and movements of celestial bodies influence human affairs, personality traits, and terrestrial events.
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
18.1%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
- 2.0%
- Magic & dogma
- 57.8%
- Rhetorical fog
- 63.0%
- Conspiracy
- 1.1%
- Psychosocial
- 2.9%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
36.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
75.3%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect61.6%
- Motte-and-bailey30.9%
- Stolen jargon6.1%
Guru roulette
95.9%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 4.1%
- Special gift needed25.7%
- Contradicting experts68.9%
- "Skeptics block it"1.3%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.7%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.2%
- 🩹Degenerative patching41.1%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon6.6%
- 🦴Fossil in amber50.1%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.2%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed