The Dispatch56%
The End of the West Near Portland, Oregon 51%
By Paul J. Pastor66%
7/31/2026, 11:45:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Middle Ground, Genetic Fallacy, and Anchoring Bias, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 35.2% saturation with 44 hits. Analysis detected 262 faulty-reasoning hits from 125 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 45.2% and a BS Rank of 51% (12,677 of 25,718 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 50.70% of the article peer group.
Nobody knows for sure where the name came from.
*Oregon*, I mean.
There are a couple dozen theories.
Maybe those sounds started as something in one of the many Native languages, or Spanish, or Portuguese, or maybe it was a mistake on a French map.
Maybe it’s from “Ouragan,” the mythic river of the West, or maybe it’s something about the wind, or the waterfalls, or oregano (yes, the herb), which the conquistadors found in the south as they traveled up the coastline trying to stick flags in stuff.
Paul J.
Pastor is executive editor of Nelson Books, a widely published writer, and author of several books, most recently, *The Locust Years: Poems*.
He lives in Oregon.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
21.6%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
4.8%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
3.2%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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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
17.6%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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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
17.6%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
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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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
35.2%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
21.6%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
35.2%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
17.6%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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125 words analyzed.
Analysis
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