Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Claim: Cognitive behavioral therapy effectively treats mental health disorders and psychological distress by identifying and modifying dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors.
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
0.9%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
- 88.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 0.7%
- Rhetorical fog
- 2.9%
- Conspiracy
- 0.1%
- Psychosocial
- 20.0%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
0.0%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
3.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect2.3%
- Motte-and-bailey0.4%
- Stolen jargon0.4%
Guru roulette
5.1%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 94.9%
- Special gift needed0.5%
- Contradicting experts4.4%
- "Skeptics block it"0.1%
Fossil & dogma clock
2.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science98.5%
- 🩹Degenerative patching1.0%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon0.1%
- 🦴Fossil in amber0.4%
Tin-foil hat reactor
0.1%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed