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What can erectile dysfunction say about men’s health? 95%
4/23/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Topics: Erectile Dysfunction, Urology
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 85% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 236 faulty-reasoning hits from 60 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.5% and a BS Rank of 95% (869 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 94.80% of the article peer group.
Erectile dysfunction is commonly thought of as a sexual health issue, but experts say the condition can reveal a lot about men’s health.
Dr.
Dean Elterman, a urologist at the University Health Network in Toronto, says ED can be connected to a host of other health problems including diabetes and heart disease.
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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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
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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
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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
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No True Scotsman
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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
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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Analysis
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