Collagen Supplements for Skin
Claim: Oral collagen supplements improve skin elasticity, hydration, and reduce wrinkles.
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
8.1%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
- 71.6%
- Magic & dogma
- 2.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 10.4%
- Conspiracy
- 1.2%
- Psychosocial
- 10.1%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
5.0%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
22.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect11.0%
- Motte-and-bailey14.8%
- Stolen jargon20.9%
Guru roulette
5.2%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 94.8%
- Special gift needed1.6%
- Contradicting experts2.8%
- "Skeptics block it"0.8%
Fossil & dogma clock
40.5%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science54.2%
- 🩹Degenerative patching24.6%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon19.2%
- 🦴Fossil in amber1.9%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.4%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed