Reiki
Claim: Reiki channels universal life force energy through the practitioner's hands to promote physical, emotional, and mental healing.
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
25.2%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
- 1.8%
- Magic & dogma
- 83.6%
- Rhetorical fog
- 31.1%
- Conspiracy
- 1.2%
- Psychosocial
- 10.5%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
53.5%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
61.2%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect8.1%
- Motte-and-bailey26.4%
- Stolen jargon64.1%
Guru roulette
97.2%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 2.8%
- Special gift needed77.5%
- Contradicting experts16.0%
- "Skeptics block it"3.6%
Fossil & dogma clock
96.8%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science2.2%
- 🩹Degenerative patching17.2%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon5.2%
- 🦴Fossil in amber75.4%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.5%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed