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At-home Lyme disease tests — for ticks — hitting market this month 39%
By Newsday Studios43% File Footage38%
8/6/2026, 2:14:24 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Nature, Biased Writer Voice, and Availability Heuristic, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 35.3% saturation with 18 hits. Analysis detected 114 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.3% and a BS Rank of 39% (18,284 of 29,795 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 61.40% of the article peer group.
The test represents the latest effort to combat Lyme, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States.
NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa spoke with local experts on what you can do to prevent this disease.
Credit: Newsday Studios; File Footage
Speakers
1speaker31%attributed speech35writer words
Selected voice
100%flagged-word coverageNewsdayTV's Ken Buffa
16 attributed words100% of attributed speech86% writer coverage
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