Al Jazeera56%
Iran war live: ‘Excessive US demands’ led to failure of talks – Araghchi 98%
By Alex Milan Durie69% Edna Mohamed0%
4/27/2026, 12:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, False Dilemma, and Confirmation Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 40.7% saturation with 48 hits. Analysis detected 340 faulty-reasoning hits from 118 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 96.3% and a BS Rank of 98% (477 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 97.20% of the article peer group.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Russia for talks with officials, including President Vladimir Putin, saying “excessive demands of the United States” led to failure of talks.
US President Donald Trump says Iranian leaders “can come to us, or they can call us” if they want to talk, a day after cancelling a planned visit by his envoys to Pakistan for negotiations.
The standoff in the Strait of Hormuz continues, with senior Iranian lawmaker Ali Nizad saying Tehran will not allow a return to pre-war conditions in the strategic waterway.
Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.
Confirmation Bias
24.6%Confirmation Bias
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24.6%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
6.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Availability Heuristic
11%Availability Heuristic
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11%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
2.7%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
1.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Framing Effect
40.7%Framing Effect
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40.7%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
15%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
1.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
2.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Pessimism Bias
23.7%Pessimism Bias
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23.7%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Negativity Bias
22%Negativity Bias
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22%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
10.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Self-Serving Bias
24.6%Self-Serving Bias
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24.6%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
3.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
1.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
1.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Recency Bias
29.7%Recency Bias
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29.7%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
3.7%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
4.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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False Dilemma
29.7%False Dilemma
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29.7%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
4.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
2.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.9%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
7.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
4.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.9%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
24.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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24.6%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
7.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
2.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Unattributed Quote
24.6%Unattributed Quote
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24.6%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
6.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Quote-first Misdirection
11%Quote-first Misdirection
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11%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
3.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Biased Writer Voice
11%Biased Writer Voice
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11%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
5.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
2.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
11%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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11%AuthorAlex Milan Durie
0.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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118 words analyzed.
Analysis
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