Tarot Reading
Claim: Tarot cards can reveal accurate insights into a person's life and predict future events through mystical or intuitive interpretation.
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?
Physically false, but a real psychological effect (nocebo / self-fulfilling prophecy).
Bio & cult hazard
8.9%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
- 1.0%
- Magic & dogma
- 73.8%
- Rhetorical fog
- 77.1%
- Conspiracy
- 0.8%
- Psychosocial
- 15.2%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
64.0%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
79.9%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect91.6%
- Motte-and-bailey7.8%
- Stolen jargon0.4%
Guru roulette
99.3%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 0.7%
- Special gift needed63.0%
- Contradicting experts34.9%
- "Skeptics block it"1.4%
Fossil & dogma clock
99.2%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.0%
- 🩹Degenerative patching12.7%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon21.8%
- 🦴Fossil in amber64.6%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.0%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed