Psychoanalysis
Claim: Psychoanalysis treats psychological disorders and explains human behavior by bringing unconscious thoughts, memories, and repressed conflicts into conscious awareness.
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
18.7%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
- 15.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 15.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 53.9%
- Conspiracy
- 1.7%
- Psychosocial
- 44.9%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
8.2%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
66.1%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect53.6%
- Motte-and-bailey8.2%
- Stolen jargon28.2%
Guru roulette
92.1%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 7.9%
- Special gift needed15.0%
- Contradicting experts76.3%
- "Skeptics block it"0.8%
Fossil & dogma clock
92.7%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science8.9%
- 🩹Degenerative patching74.6%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon1.1%
- 🦴Fossil in amber15.4%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.7%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed