Ouija Board
Claim: Ouija boards enable communication with spirits, ghosts, or other supernatural entities.
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
18.6%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
- 2.0%
- Magic & dogma
- 56.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 46.8%
- Conspiracy
- 2.2%
- Psychosocial
- 11.0%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
49.9%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
63.1%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect46.9%
- Motte-and-bailey42.5%
- Stolen jargon6.5%
Guru roulette
96.2%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 3.8%
- Special gift needed49.9%
- Contradicting experts27.6%
- "Skeptics block it"18.6%
Fossil & dogma clock
98.6%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.0%
- 🩹Degenerative patching36.0%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon29.5%
- 🦴Fossil in amber32.6%
Tin-foil hat reactor
2.1%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed