High-Dose Vitamin D Protects Against Viral Infections
Claim: High doses of vitamin D3 protect against viral infections such as HIV.
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?
Works physically, independent of belief.
Bio & cult hazard
73.5%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
- 47.5%
- Magic & dogma
- 7.0%
- Rhetorical fog
- 15.5%
- Conspiracy
- 14.0%
- Psychosocial
- 12.9%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
2.7%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
24.0%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect4.8%
- Motte-and-bailey11.8%
- Stolen jargon13.7%
Guru roulette
18.0%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 82.0%
- Special gift needed8.1%
- Contradicting experts6.6%
- "Skeptics block it"3.3%
Fossil & dogma clock
89.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science4.6%
- 🩹Degenerative patching51.5%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon34.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber9.2%
Tin-foil hat reactor
14.1%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed