Atlantis
Claim: Atlantis was an advanced prehistoric civilization that physically existed before sinking beneath the ocean.
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
19.3%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
- 17.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 32.5%
- Rhetorical fog
- 24.9%
- Conspiracy
- 22.1%
- Psychosocial
- 7.6%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
18.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
44.4%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect32.7%
- Motte-and-bailey53.5%
- Stolen jargon4.8%
Guru roulette
Does the result depend on who performs it?
Not applicable
Fossil & dogma clock
97.7%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.0%
- 🩹Degenerative patching46.2%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon11.0%
- 🦴Fossil in amber41.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
23.6%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 2/5 · A few bad actors