Multi-Level Marketing
Claim: Multi-level marketing provides participants with a viable and sustainable opportunity to achieve financial independence through direct product sales and team recruitment.
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
5.6%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
- 31.9%
- Magic & dogma
- 7.6%
- Rhetorical fog
- 42.0%
- Conspiracy
- 4.0%
- Psychosocial
- 25.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
21.2%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
52.0%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect52.3%
- Motte-and-bailey27.5%
- Stolen jargon2.5%
Guru roulette
32.1%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 67.9%
- Special gift needed16.2%
- Contradicting experts10.9%
- "Skeptics block it"5.0%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.1%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.2%
- 🩹Degenerative patching42.2%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon51.4%
- 🦴Fossil in amber4.1%
Tin-foil hat reactor
4.3%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed