Bigfoot
Claim: Bigfoot is an undiscovered, large, ape-like hominid inhabiting remote forests of North America.
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
20.0%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
- 23.5%
- Magic & dogma
- 18.7%
- Rhetorical fog
- 29.8%
- Conspiracy
- 40.1%
- Psychosocial
- 5.8%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
6.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
39.5%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect54.3%
- Motte-and-bailey22.3%
- Stolen jargon6.8%
Guru roulette
Does the result depend on who performs it?
Not applicable
Fossil & dogma clock
96.0%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.3%
- 🩹Degenerative patching63.7%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon10.3%
- 🦴Fossil in amber23.7%
Tin-foil hat reactor
40.9%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 3/5 · Industry collusion