Homeopathy

Claim: Homeopathy treats diseases using highly diluted substances whose potency increases with dilution, based on the principle that like cures like.

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Bullshit Meter

Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.

96.9%
Hard empirical modelHeuristicHybrid pseudosciencePure fiction

Physics vs. mind loop

Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?

Physical world0.7%
Mind & behaviour1.0%

Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.

Bio & cult hazard

70.4%

Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.

☣ Medical risk70.4%
🔒 Cult isolation7.6%

Topological fingerprint

The structural profile of the claim on five axes.

Empirical rigorMagic & dogmaRhetorical fogConspiracyPsychosocial
Empirical rigor
4.7%
Magic & dogma
59.0%
Rhetorical fog
24.7%
Conspiracy
6.0%
Psychosocial
1.5%
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Ockham's guillotine

What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.

Hard core0.5%
Common sense2.2%
Pure ritual96.4%
Empty negation0.9%

Scam & grift

21.1%

How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.

1. Bait19.5%
2. Guru dependence31.8%
3. Blaming the client12.7%

Fog & Barnum

52.0%

Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.

Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…

  • Barnum effect12.8%
  • Motte-and-bailey53.7%
  • Stolen jargon28.2%

Guru roulette

79.6%

Does the result depend on who performs it?

☀☂⚡?☾

Repeatability between operators: 20.4%

  • Special gift needed31.8%
  • Contradicting experts44.9%
  • "Skeptics block it"2.8%

Fossil & dogma clock

97.8%

Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?

  1. 🚀Active science2.1%
  2. 🩹Degenerative patching47.3%
  3. 🎭Marketing chameleon3.3%
  4. 🦴Fossil in amber47.3%

Tin-foil hat reactor

7.0%

How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.

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Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed