Grounding Mats
Claim: Grounding mats transfer electrical energy from the Earth into the human body to reduce inflammation, improve sleep, and treat chronic health conditions.
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
13.5%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
- 14.2%
- Magic & dogma
- 35.5%
- Rhetorical fog
- 24.9%
- Conspiracy
- 5.0%
- Psychosocial
- 11.1%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
34.4%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
57.0%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect2.1%
- Motte-and-bailey12.2%
- Stolen jargon84.0%
Guru roulette
50.8%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 49.2%
- Special gift needed27.2%
- Contradicting experts20.2%
- "Skeptics block it"3.4%
Fossil & dogma clock
95.0%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.4%
- 🩹Degenerative patching57.0%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon25.9%
- 🦴Fossil in amber15.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
5.6%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed