Detox Tea
Claim: Detox teas eliminate bodily toxins, boost metabolism, and promote weight loss.
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
5.9%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
- 18.1%
- Magic & dogma
- 23.3%
- Rhetorical fog
- 33.7%
- Conspiracy
- 3.9%
- Psychosocial
- 19.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
28.9%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
61.8%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect14.9%
- Motte-and-bailey22.1%
- Stolen jargon62.3%
Guru roulette
46.3%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 53.7%
- Special gift needed25.6%
- Contradicting experts18.1%
- "Skeptics block it"2.6%
Fossil & dogma clock
98.5%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science0.9%
- 🩹Degenerative patching22.2%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon65.8%
- 🦴Fossil in amber11.1%
Tin-foil hat reactor
3.2%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed