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Human vaccine trials for latest Ebola outbreak begin in the UK 90%
By Jeronimo Gonzalez98% Jenny Vaughan0%
7/15/2026, 1:58:39 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Pessimism Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 50.5% saturation with 93 hits. Analysis detected 519 faulty-reasoning hits from 184 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.6% and a BS Rank of 90% (1,691 of 16,550 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.80% of the article peer group.
The University of Oxford began human trials of an Ebola vaccine, as the virus spread to two new provinces in the DR Congo, fueling fears the fast-moving outbreak is becoming harder to contain.
The trial will be carried out on 50 healthy adults in Oxford, UK, against the new Bundibugyo strain, which spread undetected in the DR Congo for weeks and for which there is no known vaccine or treatment.
The news comes as Congolese health officials confirmed new cases and one death in two more northeastern provinces.
Health workers are racing to contain the disease, though efforts have been hampered by misinformation, ongoing conflict near virus-hit communities, and shortages caused by Western aid cuts.
Nearly 2,000 people have been infected and more than 700 have died in DR Congo and parts of Uganda since mid-May, in what experts fear could be the biggest Ebola outbreak on record.
The World Health Organization warned last week that the true scale of the outbreak could be two to four times higher than official data suggests.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
13.6%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
38%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
35.9%Pessimism Bias
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35.9%AuthorJeronimo Gonzalez
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Negativity Bias
50.5%Negativity Bias
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50.5%AuthorJeronimo Gonzalez
29.3%PublicationSemafor
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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
9.8%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
6%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
13.6%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
17.9%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
35.9%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
14.7%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
17.9%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
14.7%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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184 words analyzed.
Analysis
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