Herbal Slimming Teas Burn Fat
Claim: Drinking herbal slimming teas actively burns body fat and promotes weight loss.
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
5.0%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
- 21.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 22.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 32.4%
- Conspiracy
- 2.8%
- Psychosocial
- 19.5%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
32.8%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
55.7%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect26.5%
- Motte-and-bailey43.5%
- Stolen jargon26.5%
Guru roulette
47.2%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 52.8%
- Special gift needed21.7%
- Contradicting experts22.8%
- "Skeptics block it"2.7%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.2%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.4%
- 🩹Degenerative patching29.3%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon58.4%
- 🦴Fossil in amber10.9%
Tin-foil hat reactor
2.5%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed