Cannabis Increases Alzheimer's Risk
Claim: Cannabis use increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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
41.2%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
- 76.7%
- Magic & dogma
- 3.7%
- Rhetorical fog
- 7.0%
- Conspiracy
- 6.5%
- Psychosocial
- 10.1%
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
10.4%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect8.4%
- Motte-and-bailey4.0%
- Stolen jargon6.2%
Guru roulette
5.5%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 94.5%
- Special gift needed2.1%
- Contradicting experts1.7%
- "Skeptics block it"1.6%
Fossil & dogma clock
37.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science50.9%
- 🩹Degenerative patching26.8%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon18.0%
- 🦴Fossil in amber4.3%
Tin-foil hat reactor
4.9%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed