Hypnosis for Weight Loss
Claim: Hypnosis effectively promotes significant and lasting weight loss by altering subconscious eating habits and cravings.
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
13.1%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
- 14.1%
- Magic & dogma
- 35.5%
- Rhetorical fog
- 33.3%
- Conspiracy
- 1.2%
- Psychosocial
- 48.2%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
24.9%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
49.6%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect34.6%
- Motte-and-bailey42.1%
- Stolen jargon6.8%
Guru roulette
80.9%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 19.1%
- Special gift needed56.5%
- Contradicting experts23.2%
- "Skeptics block it"1.3%
Fossil & dogma clock
94.7%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science4.1%
- 🩹Degenerative patching47.8%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon26.4%
- 🦴Fossil in amber21.7%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.3%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed