New York Post89%
Nolan Wells' pal begged him to 'get the f--k on the boat' before teen vanished, 'best friend' claims 88%
By Alex Diaz97%
7/24/2026, 12:49:54 PM
Keywords: Mississippi, Nolan Wells
BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Quote-first Misdirection, Status Quo Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.4% saturation with 82 hits. Analysis detected 507 faulty-reasoning hits from 203 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.1% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,732 of 21,198 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.10% of the article peer group.
A pal of tragic teen Nolan Wells begged him to “get the f--k on the boat” before he was left behind on Horn Island, his self-described “best friend” has claimed.
Wells, 18, went missing during a Fourth of July boat trip to the barrier island 10 miles off Mississippi's Gulf Coast before his body was found in the water just two days later.
Questions from Wells’ parents and online amateur sleuths have dogged the promising football player's pals — about why they left him behind and why they were allegedly in possession of his phone and keys.
Warren Hudson –– who exclusively told The Post Tuesday that he considered Wells his “best friend” –– said that after the boat he had gone to the island on had problems with its bilge pump, Wells was repeatedly asked to get on.
“My buddy asked Nolan multiple times to get on the boat: ‘Nolan, get on the boat, get on the boat, we’re leaving.
If you’re coming, you gotta come now,’” Hudson told conservative YouTuber Brandon Tatum.
“And Nolan made a decision to stay out on the island.”
Confirmation Bias
20.2%Confirmation Bias
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20.2%AuthorAlex Diaz
19.2%PublicationCalifornia Post
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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
8.9%Framing Effect
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8.9%AuthorAlex Diaz
8.9%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
20.7%Status Quo Bias
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20.7%AuthorAlex Diaz
6.9%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
16.7%Pessimism Bias
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16.7%AuthorAlex Diaz
5.6%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Negativity Bias
40.4%Negativity Bias
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40.4%AuthorAlex Diaz
32.5%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Self-Serving Bias
17.2%Self-Serving Bias
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17.2%AuthorAlex Diaz
5.7%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Fundamental Attribution Error
5.4%Fundamental Attribution Error
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5.4%AuthorAlex Diaz
3.6%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%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
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
16.3%Hasty Generalization
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16.3%AuthorAlex Diaz
11%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Red Herring
16.7%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
14.8%Appeal to Emotion
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14.8%AuthorAlex Diaz
4.9%PublicationCalifornia Post
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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
14.8%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)
5.4%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
23.6%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
19.7%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
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203 words analyzed.
Analysis
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