Crooks and Liars90%
Woody Guthrie And The Ghost Of Tom Joad Today 82%
By Heather83%
8/2/2026, 2:50:41 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Red Herring, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 375 faulty-reasoning hits from 67 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 68.3% and a BS Rank of 82% (4,705 of 25,726 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 81.70% of the article peer group.
Narrated by Rosanne Cash and featuring music from Bruce Springsteen, this timely film connects the paths of two American icons—songwriter Woody Guthrie (who penned "This Land is Your Land") and novelist John Steinbeck (who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath")—as they forged a bond in a campaign to ease the suffering of migrants in California, and their legacy today.
Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorHeather
6.5%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorHeather
1.3%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Framing Effect
100%Framing Effect
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100%AuthorHeather
18.3%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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2.1%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorHeather
4.4%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Negativity Bias
86.6%Negativity Bias
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86.6%AuthorHeather
19.6%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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1.8%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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1.2%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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3.6%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Horn Effect
0%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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2.2%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Primacy Effect
13.4%Primacy Effect
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13.4%AuthorHeather
1.9%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
86.6%Appeal to Authority
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86.6%AuthorHeather
5.4%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorHeather
4%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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2.2%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0.3%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Red Herring
86.6%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
86.6%Appeal to Emotion
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86.6%AuthorHeather
7.6%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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3%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%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)
0%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
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
13.4%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
86.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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86.6%AuthorHeather
2.7%PublicationCrooks and Liars
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67 words analyzed.
Analysis
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