Naturopathy
Claim: Naturopathy uses natural remedies, lifestyle counseling, and vitalistic therapies to support the body's self-healing mechanisms and treat illness without conventional pharmaceuticals or surgery.
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
73.8%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
- 4.9%
- Magic & dogma
- 61.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 39.3%
- Conspiracy
- 4.5%
- Psychosocial
- 27.1%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
8.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
62.6%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect28.1%
- Motte-and-bailey28.1%
- Stolen jargon41.7%
Guru roulette
92.0%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 8.0%
- Special gift needed49.8%
- Contradicting experts40.9%
- "Skeptics block it"1.3%
Fossil & dogma clock
95.6%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.8%
- 🩹Degenerative patching32.6%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon16.3%
- 🦴Fossil in amber48.3%
Tin-foil hat reactor
3.8%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed