Crystal Healing
Claim: Crystal healing uses gemstones and crystals to channel healing energy into the body and cure physical and mental ailments.
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
37.9%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
- 1.5%
- Magic & dogma
- 68.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 29.9%
- Conspiracy
- 1.1%
- Psychosocial
- 6.8%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
53.2%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
59.7%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect10.0%
- Motte-and-bailey24.2%
- Stolen jargon65.0%
Guru roulette
98.7%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 1.3%
- Special gift needed57.4%
- Contradicting experts38.7%
- "Skeptics block it"2.7%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.5%
- 🩹Degenerative patching33.9%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon13.3%
- 🦴Fossil in amber50.3%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.2%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed