Magnetic Bracelets for Pain Relief
Claim: Wearing magnetic bracelets relieves pain and promotes healing.
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
14.1%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
- 16.0%
- Magic & dogma
- 43.0%
- Rhetorical fog
- 26.8%
- Conspiracy
- 4.3%
- Psychosocial
- 8.8%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
40.1%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
50.9%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect24.3%
- Motte-and-bailey32.6%
- Stolen jargon39.7%
Guru roulette
54.7%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 45.3%
- Special gift needed30.5%
- Contradicting experts16.9%
- "Skeptics block it"7.3%
Fossil & dogma clock
95.9%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.5%
- 🩹Degenerative patching61.0%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon16.9%
- 🦴Fossil in amber19.6%
Tin-foil hat reactor
4.9%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed