Cold Showers Boost Immunity
Claim: Taking regular cold showers strengthens the immune system and helps prevent illness.
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
10.1%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
- 62.6%
- Magic & dogma
- 7.2%
- Rhetorical fog
- 18.5%
- Conspiracy
- 1.7%
- Psychosocial
- 26.1%
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
28.5%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect13.5%
- Motte-and-bailey21.0%
- Stolen jargon9.1%
Guru roulette
6.4%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 93.6%
- Special gift needed3.4%
- Contradicting experts1.9%
- "Skeptics block it"1.1%
Fossil & dogma clock
52.6%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science47.2%
- 🩹Degenerative patching18.5%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon22.5%
- 🦴Fossil in amber11.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.9%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed