QAnon

Claim: A secret cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic elites operates a global child sex trafficking ring and conspires against Donald Trump, who is working to dismantle it.

HARDCORE CONSPIRACY Worldwide#qanon#conspiracy#deep-state
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Bullshit Meter

Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.

87.3%
Hard empirical modelHeuristicHybrid pseudosciencePure fiction

Physics vs. mind loop

Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?

Physical world11.2%
Mind & behaviour7.2%

Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.

Bio & cult hazard

34.9%

Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.

☣ Medical risk25.8%
🔒 Cult isolation48.5%

Topological fingerprint

The structural profile of the claim on five axes.

Empirical rigorMagic & dogmaRhetorical fogConspiracyPsychosocial
Empirical rigor
5.3%
Magic & dogma
29.5%
Rhetorical fog
48.8%
Conspiracy
75.0%
Psychosocial
7.1%
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Ockham's guillotine

What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.

Hard core0.7%
Common sense3.2%
Pure ritual43.3%
Empty negation52.8%

Scam & grift

4.4%

How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.

1. Bait3.9%
2. Guru dependence27.5%
3. Blaming the client0.2%

Fog & Barnum

61.4%

Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.

Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…

  • Barnum effect60.7%
  • Motte-and-bailey33.5%
  • Stolen jargon4.4%

Guru roulette

Does the result depend on who performs it?

Not applicable

Fossil & dogma clock

99.3%

Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?

  1. 🚀Active science0.7%
  2. 🩹Degenerative patching28.2%
  3. 🎭Marketing chameleon68.7%
  4. 🦴Fossil in amber2.4%

Tin-foil hat reactor

80.8%

How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.

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Paranoia level 5/5 · Every agency, satellite and university