Colloidal Silver
Claim: Colloidal silver acts as a powerful natural antibiotic and remedy capable of treating diverse infections and promoting 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
61.7%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
- 21.8%
- Magic & dogma
- 22.0%
- Rhetorical fog
- 34.8%
- Conspiracy
- 16.5%
- Psychosocial
- 7.5%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
18.6%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
55.5%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect35.9%
- Motte-and-bailey29.5%
- Stolen jargon32.5%
Guru roulette
51.6%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 48.4%
- Special gift needed20.9%
- Contradicting experts28.1%
- "Skeptics block it"2.5%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.6%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.0%
- 🩹Degenerative patching37.1%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon37.1%
- 🦴Fossil in amber23.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
19.0%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed