Cell Phone Radiation Causes Cancer
Claim: Electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones causes cancer in humans.
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
61.8%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
- 47.0%
- Magic & dogma
- 18.5%
- Rhetorical fog
- 12.5%
- Conspiracy
- 23.3%
- Psychosocial
- 6.1%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
1.6%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
22.7%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect4.5%
- Motte-and-bailey12.7%
- Stolen jargon18.0%
Guru roulette
20.4%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 79.6%
- Special gift needed9.1%
- Contradicting experts7.8%
- "Skeptics block it"3.5%
Fossil & dogma clock
71.0%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science26.3%
- 🩹Degenerative patching47.5%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon22.6%
- 🦴Fossil in amber3.6%
Tin-foil hat reactor
20.8%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 2/5 · A few bad actors