The Japan Times64%
Austria hopes Hitler’s birth house won’t lure Nazi pilgrims after €20 million rebuild 74%
By Marton Eder0%
7/20/2026, 12:53:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Pessimism Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 56.8% saturation with 84 hits. Analysis detected 528 faulty-reasoning hits from 148 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.9% and a BS Rank of 74% (4,930 of 18,586 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.50% of the article peer group.
Austria will open a police station in the building where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, aiming to end decades of public debate on how to prevent it from becoming a pilgrimage destination for far-right extremists.
The €20 million ($22.9 million) transformation follows nationalization of the building in Braunau am Inn, north of Salzburg on Austria’s border with Germany.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner is set to officially open the new station on Wednesday.
A government-mandated commission of experts rejected proposals for a museum on the site due to the risk that a place of memory could be misrepresented by visitors.
Plans to demolish were also blocked as the 17th century building is part of the town’s historical center and under heritage protection — and the commission feared it would symbolize denial of the site’s history.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
18.2%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
24.3%Overconfidence Bias
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24.3%AuthorMarton Eder
8.1%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Framing Effect
56.8%Framing Effect
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56.8%AuthorMarton Eder
32.7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
24.3%Status Quo Bias
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24.3%AuthorMarton Eder
16%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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8.1%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Pessimism Bias
33.1%Pessimism Bias
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33.1%AuthorMarton Eder
11%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Negativity Bias
32.4%Negativity Bias
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32.4%AuthorMarton Eder
10.8%PublicationThe Japan Times
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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
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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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
18.2%Appeal to Authority
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18.2%PublicationThe Japan Times
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorMarton Eder
7.9%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Slippery Slope
23.6%Slippery Slope
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23.6%AuthorMarton Eder
7.9%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Circular Reasoning
0%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
23.6%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
18.2%Begging the Question
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6.1%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%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
27%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
56.8%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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148 words analyzed.
Analysis
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