Third person dies in Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Upper East Side 63%
By John Annese58% Roni Jacobson62%
7/19/2026, 1:08:50 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias and Negativity Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 41.2% saturation with 21 hits. Analysis detected 48 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.8% and a BS Rank of 63% (6,974 of 18,799 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 62.90% of the article peer group.
So far, 74 people have been affected by the outbreak, with 62 of them needing hospitalization.
Nine remain hospitalized.
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Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
31.4%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
21.6%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
41.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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51 words analyzed.
Analysis
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