Chiropractic
Claim: Chiropractic manipulation of the spine and musculoskeletal system diagnoses, treats, and prevents mechanical disorders and promotes overall health.
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
24.4%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
- 22.2%
- Magic & dogma
- 37.5%
- Rhetorical fog
- 29.0%
- Conspiracy
- 4.8%
- Psychosocial
- 28.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
6.6%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
49.7%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect20.3%
- Motte-and-bailey44.7%
- Stolen jargon17.5%
Guru roulette
72.4%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 27.6%
- Special gift needed23.8%
- Contradicting experts47.5%
- "Skeptics block it"1.1%
Fossil & dogma clock
86.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science15.8%
- 🩹Degenerative patching40.3%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon7.5%
- 🦴Fossil in amber36.5%
Tin-foil hat reactor
5.5%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed