Copper Bracelets for Arthritis
Claim: Wearing copper bracelets treats and relieves the symptoms of arthritis and rheumatism.
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
40.3%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
- 17.9%
- Magic & dogma
- 47.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 28.5%
- Conspiracy
- 3.5%
- Psychosocial
- 11.1%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
30.1%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
50.5%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect28.6%
- Motte-and-bailey42.4%
- Stolen jargon23.4%
Guru roulette
44.7%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 55.3%
- Special gift needed26.4%
- Contradicting experts13.2%
- "Skeptics block it"5.2%
Fossil & dogma clock
96.5%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.4%
- 🩹Degenerative patching22.9%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon21.8%
- 🦴Fossil in amber53.0%
Tin-foil hat reactor
4.2%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed