Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
Claim: Humans only use ten percent of their brain capacity, leaving the remaining ninety percent dormant or untapped.
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
2.4%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
- 28.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 28.9%
- Rhetorical fog
- 16.2%
- Conspiracy
- 21.4%
- Psychosocial
- 12.7%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
22.7%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
35.5%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect22.2%
- Motte-and-bailey13.5%
- Stolen jargon44.2%
Guru roulette
Does the result depend on who performs it?
Not applicable
Fossil & dogma clock
93.2%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science5.7%
- 🩹Degenerative patching25.3%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon55.7%
- 🦴Fossil in amber13.3%
Tin-foil hat reactor
20.2%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 2/5 · A few bad actors