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The nurse practitioners who saved a clinic 100%
By Dr. Brian Goldman0%
5/1/2026, 12:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 59.4% saturation with 41 hits. Analysis detected 367 faulty-reasoning hits from 69 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 100% (23 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 99.90% of the article peer group.
So many Canadian small towns have lost their only doctor.
But when this happened in Wembley, Alberta, two nurse practitioners stepped in thanks to new provincial legislation allowing NPs to run their own clinics and bill the province directly, as a family doctor would.
Though doctors’ organizations are pushing back, patients in Wembley are thrilled with this new model of primary care.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
14.5%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
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Framing Effect
40.6%Framing Effect
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40.6%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
24.2%PublicationCBC
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
49.3%Status Quo Bias
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49.3%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
3.6%PublicationCBC
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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7.8%PublicationCBC
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
0.4%PublicationCBC
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Negativity Bias
40.6%Negativity Bias
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40.6%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
20.2%PublicationCBC
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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1.2%PublicationCBC
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%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
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
2.5%PublicationCBC
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Halo Effect
10.1%Halo Effect
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10.1%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
6.3%PublicationCBC
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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3.1%PublicationCBC
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0.6%PublicationCBC
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
49.3%Appeal to Authority
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49.3%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
16.9%PublicationCBC
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False Dilemma
26.1%False Dilemma
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26.1%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
6.5%PublicationCBC
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
14.5%Hasty Generalization
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14.5%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
22%PublicationCBC
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
26.1%Bandwagon
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26.1%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
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Appeal to Emotion
26.1%Appeal to Emotion
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26.1%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
11.3%PublicationCBC
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
2.5%PublicationCBC
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
49.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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49.3%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
14.7%PublicationCBC
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Tu Quoque
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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
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
36.2%Anecdotal
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36.2%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
18.2%PublicationCBC
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
14.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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14.5%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
2.4%PublicationCBC
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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
49.3%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
59.4%Biased Writer Voice
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59.4%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
20.1%PublicationCBC
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Indoctrination
26.1%Indoctrination
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26.1%AuthorDr. Brian Goldman
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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
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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69 words analyzed.
Analysis
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