Meditation Reduces Stress
Claim: Practicing meditation reduces psychological stress.
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
3.5%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
- 75.6%
- Magic & dogma
- 9.0%
- Rhetorical fog
- 7.4%
- Conspiracy
- 0.3%
- Psychosocial
- 35.4%
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
9.4%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect8.8%
- Motte-and-bailey5.1%
- Stolen jargon1.1%
Guru roulette
13.7%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 86.3%
- Special gift needed11.4%
- Contradicting experts1.4%
- "Skeptics block it"0.9%
Fossil & dogma clock
19.7%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science89.7%
- 🩹Degenerative patching1.3%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon0.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber8.4%
Tin-foil hat reactor
0.3%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed