Homeopathy for Colds
Claim: Homeopathic remedies and globules effectively treat or relieve symptoms of the common cold.
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
35.9%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
- 9.7%
- Magic & dogma
- 58.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 25.2%
- Conspiracy
- 6.4%
- Psychosocial
- 2.7%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
31.8%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
52.7%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect8.8%
- Motte-and-bailey49.3%
- Stolen jargon33.2%
Guru roulette
68.3%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 31.7%
- Special gift needed23.6%
- Contradicting experts42.7%
- "Skeptics block it"2.0%
Fossil & dogma clock
96.7%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.1%
- 🩹Degenerative patching37.5%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon4.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber55.7%
Tin-foil hat reactor
7.8%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed