L.A. TACO86%
L.A.’s 7 Best Tacos Fusing Middle Eastern and Arabic Influences92%
By Hadley Tomicki0% Javier Cabral0%
1/23/2026, 12:30:32 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 75% saturation with 6 hits. Analysis detected 18 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,632 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.8% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,365 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 91.90% of the article peer group.
Sunday Taquitos!
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Ivan Ehlers
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
2%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.9%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Availability Heuristic
25%Availability Heuristic
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25%AuthorHadley Tomicki
2.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
1.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
2.2%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Framing Effect
25%Framing Effect
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25%AuthorHadley Tomicki
9.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.2%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Optimism Bias
25%Optimism Bias
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25%AuthorHadley Tomicki
2.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
3.8%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.9%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
5.5%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Halo Effect
75%Halo Effect
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75%AuthorHadley Tomicki
13.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Primacy Effect
25%Primacy Effect
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25%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Appeal to Authority
50%Appeal to Authority
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50%AuthorHadley Tomicki
2.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.8%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.2%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
5%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.2%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
1.9%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
9.8%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
1.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.2%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
2.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.8%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0.5%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Biased Writer Voice
0%Biased Writer Voice
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
11.5%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
2.8%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorHadley Tomicki
9.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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8 words analyzed.
Analysis
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