Polygraph Lie Detection
Claim: Polygraph tests can reliably determine whether a person is lying by measuring physiological indicators such as heart rate, respiration, and galvanic skin response.
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?
Works physically, independent of belief.
Bio & cult hazard
36.8%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
- 43.5%
- Magic & dogma
- 4.1%
- Rhetorical fog
- 11.9%
- Conspiracy
- 2.3%
- Psychosocial
- 12.5%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
7.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
20.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect6.7%
- Motte-and-bailey13.4%
- Stolen jargon11.6%
Guru roulette
66.0%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 34.0%
- Special gift needed6.3%
- Contradicting experts58.5%
- "Skeptics block it"1.2%
Fossil & dogma clock
82.3%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science11.0%
- 🩹Degenerative patching75.1%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon10.4%
- 🦴Fossil in amber3.5%
Tin-foil hat reactor
2.6%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed