Law of Attraction
Claim: Positive or negative thoughts directly bring positive or negative experiences and outcomes into a person's life.
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?
Physically false, but a real psychological effect (nocebo / self-fulfilling prophecy).
Bio & cult hazard
20.1%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
- 2.6%
- Magic & dogma
- 53.7%
- Rhetorical fog
- 40.5%
- Conspiracy
- 1.0%
- Psychosocial
- 36.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
42.8%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
62.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect33.2%
- Motte-and-bailey40.4%
- Stolen jargon24.7%
Guru roulette
92.0%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 8.0%
- Special gift needed63.7%
- Contradicting experts22.6%
- "Skeptics block it"5.7%
Fossil & dogma clock
98.4%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.8%
- 🩹Degenerative patching45.4%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon25.1%
- 🦴Fossil in amber27.7%
Tin-foil hat reactor
0.9%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed