Vaccines Cause Autism
Claim: Routine childhood vaccinations cause autism spectrum disorders.
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
92.4%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
- 26.1%
- Magic & dogma
- 15.7%
- Rhetorical fog
- 29.3%
- Conspiracy
- 63.2%
- Psychosocial
- 6.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
0.9%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
47.4%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect22.3%
- Motte-and-bailey38.4%
- Stolen jargon15.8%
Guru roulette
45.7%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 54.3%
- Special gift needed13.6%
- Contradicting experts25.9%
- "Skeptics block it"6.2%
Fossil & dogma clock
97.1%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science3.3%
- 🩹Degenerative patching62.9%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon28.5%
- 🦴Fossil in amber5.3%
Tin-foil hat reactor
59.8%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 3/5 · Industry collusion