Ear Candling
Claim: Ear candling extracts earwax and toxins from the ear canal and promotes systemic healing through negative pressure created by a burning hollow candle.
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
44.5%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
- 14.6%
- Magic & dogma
- 42.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 23.4%
- Conspiracy
- 6.7%
- Psychosocial
- 7.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
30.4%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
54.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect4.5%
- Motte-and-bailey25.1%
- Stolen jargon67.4%
Guru roulette
59.6%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 40.4%
- Special gift needed31.6%
- Contradicting experts25.9%
- "Skeptics block it"2.1%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.9%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science0.9%
- 🩹Degenerative patching40.9%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon13.1%
- 🦴Fossil in amber45.1%
Tin-foil hat reactor
8.0%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed