Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Personality
Claim: People have a dominant brain hemisphere that dictates whether they are inherently analytical and logical or creative and artistic.
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
9.8%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
- 28.6%
- Magic & dogma
- 19.5%
- Rhetorical fog
- 38.5%
- Conspiracy
- 3.4%
- Psychosocial
- 23.6%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
17.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
55.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect35.9%
- Motte-and-bailey10.4%
- Stolen jargon39.6%
Guru roulette
50.3%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 49.7%
- Special gift needed18.5%
- Contradicting experts26.2%
- "Skeptics block it"5.7%
Fossil & dogma clock
89.5%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science4.3%
- 🩹Degenerative patching48.7%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon26.9%
- 🦴Fossil in amber20.0%
Tin-foil hat reactor
3.0%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed