Ghosts
Claim: Ghosts of deceased individuals exist and can manifest in or interact with the physical world.
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
43.1%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
- 1.8%
- Magic & dogma
- 71.5%
- Rhetorical fog
- 42.8%
- Conspiracy
- 2.9%
- Psychosocial
- 4.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
32.0%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
58.3%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect49.9%
- Motte-and-bailey41.0%
- Stolen jargon5.4%
Guru roulette
97.4%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 2.6%
- Special gift needed62.2%
- Contradicting experts8.2%
- "Skeptics block it"26.9%
Fossil & dogma clock
98.2%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.8%
- 🩹Degenerative patching28.8%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon11.9%
- 🦴Fossil in amber57.5%
Tin-foil hat reactor
2.1%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed