Feng Shui
Claim: Harmonizing spatial arrangement and orientation in accordance with the flow of qi promotes positive energy, health, and prosperity.
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
21.6%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
- 1.9%
- Magic & dogma
- 75.3%
- Rhetorical fog
- 44.9%
- Conspiracy
- 1.2%
- Psychosocial
- 34.0%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
14.7%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
67.9%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect29.8%
- Motte-and-bailey34.5%
- Stolen jargon34.5%
Guru roulette
96.6%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 3.4%
- Special gift needed49.1%
- Contradicting experts44.5%
- "Skeptics block it"2.9%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.2%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.4%
- 🩹Degenerative patching15.1%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon2.8%
- 🦴Fossil in amber80.7%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.3%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed