Marlo Lewis Comment on EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Motor Vehicle Standards 72%

12/1/2009, 8:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Begging the Question, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 27.3% saturation with 15 hits. Analysis detected 95 faulty-reasoning hits from 55 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.5% and a BS Rank of 72% (5,316 of 18,899 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 71.90% of the article peer group.

EPA should withdraw its proposal to establish GHG 
emission standards for new motor vehicles. 
The proposed standards: (1) 
lack an adequate scientific basis; (2) will increase the risk of death 
and injury related to auto accidents; and (3) will spawn an 
economically-chilling regulatory morass. 
Confirmation Bias
21.8%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
20%
Loss Aversion
5.5%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
20%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
21.8%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
27.3%
Begging the Question
21.8%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
14.5%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
5.5%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
14.5%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

55 words analyzed.

Analysis

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