Mercury Retrograde
Claim: Mercury in retrograde causes communication breakdowns, technological glitches, travel disruptions, and bad luck in daily 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?
Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.
Bio & cult hazard
38.4%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
- 2.3%
- Magic & dogma
- 61.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 66.0%
- Conspiracy
- 2.6%
- Psychosocial
- 5.8%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
25.4%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
81.3%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect52.7%
- Motte-and-bailey39.2%
- Stolen jargon6.6%
Guru roulette
94.1%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 5.9%
- Special gift needed44.3%
- Contradicting experts44.3%
- "Skeptics block it"5.6%
Fossil & dogma clock
98.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.2%
- 🩹Degenerative patching42.6%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon13.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber42.6%
Tin-foil hat reactor
2.8%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed