Intermittent Fasting
Claim: Intermittent fasting promotes weight loss, improves metabolic health, and enhances longevity by cycling between periods of eating and fasting.
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
9.1%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
- 80.2%
- Magic & dogma
- 1.9%
- Rhetorical fog
- 10.7%
- Conspiracy
- 0.7%
- Psychosocial
- 14.0%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
0.1%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
15.3%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect7.7%
- Motte-and-bailey10.4%
- Stolen jargon3.3%
Guru roulette
4.5%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 95.5%
- Special gift needed0.7%
- Contradicting experts3.3%
- "Skeptics block it"0.5%
Fossil & dogma clock
30.4%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science67.0%
- 🩹Degenerative patching10.3%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon18.6%
- 🦴Fossil in amber4.2%
Tin-foil hat reactor
0.8%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed