Here & Now9%
ICE officer who fatally shot a man in Maine has a history of violence, ex-wife says 93%
By Vanessa Romo46% NPR78%
7/17/2026, 12:08:13 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Primacy Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 44 hits. Analysis detected 326 faulty-reasoning hits from 88 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.3% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,382 of 17,853 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.30% of the article peer group.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine on Monday is an Army veteran, a former police officer, and was also briefly a firefighter.
On paper, those qualifications might make him an ideal candidate for the job.
But people who were closest to him tell NPR’s Vanessa Romo that he’s a violent person with mental health issues who never should have been given a gun.
Confirmation Bias
31.8%Confirmation Bias
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31.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
4.7%PublicationCognoscenti
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.5%PublicationCognoscenti
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
4.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
1.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.5%PublicationCognoscenti
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Framing Effect
14.8%Framing Effect
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14.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
6.5%PublicationCognoscenti
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
2.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
1.6%PublicationCognoscenti
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.6%PublicationCognoscenti
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
4.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Negativity Bias
50%Negativity Bias
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50%AuthorVanessa Romo
13.9%PublicationCognoscenti
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Actor-Observer Bias
31.8%Actor-Observer Bias
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31.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
2.1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
2.7%PublicationCognoscenti
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Halo Effect
14.8%Halo Effect
OverallThis article
14.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
2.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
1.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Primacy Effect
35.2%Primacy Effect
OverallThis article
35.2%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.5%PublicationCognoscenti
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Appeal to Authority
14.8%Appeal to Authority
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14.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
5.8%PublicationCognoscenti
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.8%PublicationCognoscenti
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
3.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Hasty Generalization
31.8%Hasty Generalization
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31.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
4.5%PublicationCognoscenti
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Appeal to Emotion
31.8%Appeal to Emotion
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31.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
6.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
1.6%PublicationCognoscenti
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Anecdotal
50%Anecdotal
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50%AuthorVanessa Romo
2.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
1.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Unattributed Quote
31.8%Unattributed Quote
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31.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
1.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Biased Writer Voice
31.8%Biased Writer Voice
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31.8%AuthorVanessa Romo
2.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorVanessa Romo
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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88 words analyzed.
Analysis
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