Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Claim: Neuro-linguistic programming alters thoughts and behaviors through modeled patterns of language and neurological processes to treat disorders and achieve personal success.
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
10.1%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
- 10.7%
- Magic & dogma
- 23.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 39.8%
- Conspiracy
- 1.7%
- Psychosocial
- 50.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
20.4%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
66.9%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect13.1%
- Motte-and-bailey23.7%
- Stolen jargon57.6%
Guru roulette
80.6%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 19.4%
- Special gift needed31.7%
- Contradicting experts47.1%
- "Skeptics block it"1.8%
Fossil & dogma clock
95.7%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science3.4%
- 🩹Degenerative patching59.3%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon25.6%
- 🦴Fossil in amber11.6%
Tin-foil hat reactor
2.0%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed