Hirudotherapy
Claim: Hirudotherapy treats various circulatory, inflammatory, and chronic diseases through the application of medicinal leeches.
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
31.4%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
- 53.2%
- Magic & dogma
- 22.0%
- Rhetorical fog
- 24.5%
- Conspiracy
- 1.7%
- Psychosocial
- 12.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
3.7%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
31.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect16.7%
- Motte-and-bailey9.7%
- Stolen jargon10.2%
Guru roulette
22.9%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 77.1%
- Special gift needed13.0%
- Contradicting experts9.2%
- "Skeptics block it"0.6%
Fossil & dogma clock
69.6%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science26.8%
- 🩹Degenerative patching24.3%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon2.9%
- 🦴Fossil in amber46.1%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.9%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed