ZEROIQ.orgPeer-Reviewed Nonsense Index
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The Peer-Reviewed Nonsense Index

The internet is losing IQ points.
We're keeping score.

ZeroIQ is an automated, educational satire platform that indexes, debunks, and ranks viral social media videos by how far their claims stray from validated scientific consensus. Multimodal AI parses each video, every factual claim is verified against peer-reviewed sources, and the result is a single number — the ZeroIQ Score — turning internet misinformation into entertaining, digestible science communication.

THE PROBLEM → THE FIX
Misinformation on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts spreads faster than fact-checking articles
Gamified Accountability
A high-score leaderboard ranking the dumbest viral content — being wrong finally has a scoreboard.
Scientific papers are dense, boring, and paywalled for average internet users
Donkey Summaries
Complex counter-arguments explained in hilarious, plain-English ELI5 terms, cited all the way down.
Fact-checking platforms lack virality and entertainment value
Pop-Culture Interface
Fast, searchable, shareable rating cards designed to travel as far as the nonsense they debunk.
HOW A VIDEO GETS SCORED
01
Extracting transcript
Speech-to-text runs on the full video, including the parts mumbled over lo-fi beats.
02
Segmenting claims
Every verifiable statement is isolated as a discrete, checkable claim.
03
Verifying vs PubMed + ArXiv
Claims are matched against indexed peer-reviewed literature on PubMed and ArXiv.
04
Calculating ZeroIQ Score
Score = 100 − scientific accuracy, aggregated across all claims in the video.
THE ZEROIQ SCALE
Score = 100 − scientific accuracy. Every band is set by claim-level agreement with indexed peer-reviewed literature.
90–100
CRITICAL BIOHAZARD
Pure danger or total logic collapse.
70–89
HIGH FRICTION
Grossly misleading pseudoscientific claims.
40–69
MODERATE
Bad math, flawed logic, or viral myths.
0–39
TOLERABLE
Mostly accurate, or a harmless joke.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is this serious?
It's satire built on a serious pipeline. The jokes are jokes; the claim verification against published literature is real. We laugh at the videos, not at the science.
Who decides what's wrong?
Nobody "decides". Each claim is matched against indexed peer-reviewed sources and scored by agreement. Videos scoring 90+ are additionally reviewed by hand before publication.
A video I love is on here. Can you remove it?
No, but you can dispute it. If a cited source is misapplied or newer literature contradicts our match, file a correction and the score gets recomputed.
Do you host the videos?
Never. Everything is embedded via official platform players under fair use, and creators keep every view and every cent.
Found a fresh disaster?
Paste a URL on the front page and the pipeline takes it from there.
Submit a video
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