Ivermectin Cures COVID-19
Claim: Ivermectin is an effective cure and treatment for COVID-19.
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
79.2%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
- 51.1%
- Magic & dogma
- 5.3%
- Rhetorical fog
- 16.2%
- Conspiracy
- 37.9%
- Psychosocial
- 4.6%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
0.5%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
24.9%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect4.2%
- Motte-and-bailey21.3%
- Stolen jargon5.1%
Guru roulette
7.4%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 92.6%
- Special gift needed1.6%
- Contradicting experts4.1%
- "Skeptics block it"1.7%
Fossil & dogma clock
90.4%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science8.6%
- 🩹Degenerative patching43.9%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon39.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber7.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
41.4%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 3/5 · Industry collusion