Hollow Earth
Claim: Planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a vast interior space, potentially housing subterranean civilizations or an internal sun.
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
27.9%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
- 10.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 42.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 23.0%
- Conspiracy
- 64.4%
- Psychosocial
- 3.9%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
3.1%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
41.0%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect27.5%
- Motte-and-bailey30.3%
- Stolen jargon23.7%
Guru roulette
Does the result depend on who performs it?
Not applicable
Fossil & dogma clock
98.0%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.6%
- 🩹Degenerative patching60.0%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon13.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber24.7%
Tin-foil hat reactor
60.4%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 4/5 · Governments and science