Flat Earth
Claim: The Earth is a flat plane or disk rather than an oblate spheroid.
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
31.1%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
- 22.3%
- Magic & dogma
- 23.0%
- Rhetorical fog
- 29.7%
- Conspiracy
- 78.9%
- Psychosocial
- 3.5%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
0.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
50.3%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect30.1%
- Motte-and-bailey23.5%
- Stolen jargon38.5%
Guru roulette
27.3%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 72.7%
- Special gift needed11.1%
- Contradicting experts8.7%
- "Skeptics block it"7.5%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.5%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science3.8%
- 🩹Degenerative patching60.9%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon1.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber33.7%
Tin-foil hat reactor
74.1%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 4/5 · Governments and science