Crypto Pump and Dump Schemes
Claim: Participating in coordinated cryptocurrency pump-and-dump groups guarantees easy and substantial trading profits for members who buy and sell on coordinated signals.
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
6.6%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
- 21.6%
- Magic & dogma
- 13.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 37.5%
- Conspiracy
- 13.5%
- Psychosocial
- 10.4%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
39.5%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
52.3%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect44.9%
- Motte-and-bailey40.6%
- Stolen jargon3.8%
Guru roulette
72.1%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 27.9%
- Special gift needed29.3%
- Contradicting experts39.4%
- "Skeptics block it"3.3%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.5%
- 🩹Degenerative patching35.1%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon57.5%
- 🦴Fossil in amber5.9%
Tin-foil hat reactor
12.9%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed