Bermuda Triangle

Claim: An unusually high number of aircraft and ships mysteriously disappear in the Bermuda Triangle due to paranormal forces, extraterrestrial activity, or unexplained physical anomalies.

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Bullshit Meter

Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.

90.8%
Hard empirical modelHeuristicHybrid pseudosciencePure fiction

Physics vs. mind loop

Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?

Physical world4.5%
Mind & behaviour4.7%

Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.

Bio & cult hazard

44.1%

Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.

☣ Medical risk44.1%
🔒 Cult isolation20.1%

Topological fingerprint

The structural profile of the claim on five axes.

Empirical rigorMagic & dogmaRhetorical fogConspiracyPsychosocial
Empirical rigor
7.1%
Magic & dogma
44.4%
Rhetorical fog
42.4%
Conspiracy
38.3%
Psychosocial
4.3%
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Ockham's guillotine

What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.

Hard core0.8%
Common sense5.5%
Pure ritual53.7%
Empty negation39.9%

Scam & grift

8.6%

How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.

1. Bait13.5%
2. Guru dependence30.1%
3. Blaming the client1.0%

Fog & Barnum

58.5%

Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.

Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…

  • Barnum effect48.0%
  • Motte-and-bailey21.8%
  • Stolen jargon26.5%

Guru roulette

Does the result depend on who performs it?

Not applicable

Fossil & dogma clock

98.1%

Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?

  1. 🚀Active science0.9%
  2. 🩹Degenerative patching57.6%
  3. 🎭Marketing chameleon33.5%
  4. 🦴Fossil in amber8.0%

Tin-foil hat reactor

38.1%

How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.

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Paranoia level 2/5 · A few bad actors