Science Newsâ 21%
A new species of walking shark has been found in Papua New Guineaâ 2%
By Brianna Randallâ 0%
7/1/2026, 1:00:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 0 faulty reasoning types, including no named faulty reasoning patterns yet, with no single egregious example has been isolated yet. Analysis detected 0 faulty-reasoning hits from 180 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.9% and a BS Rank of â 2% (14,167 of 14,328 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.90% of the article peer group.
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Self-Serving Bias
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Recency Bias
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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180 words analyzed.
Speakers
1speaker3.9%attributed speech173writer words
Selected voice
0%flagged-word coverageScience News
7 attributed words100% of attributed speech0% writer coverage
WriterSpeaker0â5% shared scale
No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.
Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.