Open Relationships Are Safe for Marriage
Claim: Open relationships do not pose a threat to marital stability because extramarital intimacy is purely physical.
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?
Physically false, but a real psychological effect (nocebo / self-fulfilling prophecy).
Bio & cult hazard
17.5%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
- 16.3%
- Magic & dogma
- 16.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 46.7%
- Conspiracy
- 12.3%
- Psychosocial
- 44.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
6.0%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
53.8%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect70.3%
- Motte-and-bailey17.6%
- Stolen jargon3.6%
Guru roulette
86.9%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 13.1%
- Special gift needed28.9%
- Contradicting experts55.0%
- "Skeptics block it"3.0%
Fossil & dogma clock
91.8%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science5.5%
- 🩹Degenerative patching52.8%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon27.8%
- 🦴Fossil in amber13.9%
Tin-foil hat reactor
6.6%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed