Al Jazeera54%
Iran war live: US launches new attacks; Hegseth says war has cost $37.5bn 88%
By Enes Abuomer42% Lyndal Rowlands84% Zaid Sabah86%
7/22/2026, 12:00:15 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Recency Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 56.3% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 335 faulty-reasoning hits from 119 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.2% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,424 of 19,443 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.50% of the article peer group.
US bombs Iran for an 11th consecutive night as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the cost of the war has reached $37.5bn.
US President Donald Trump threatens to attack a suspected Iranian nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain “pretty soon, and very heavily”, prompting Tehran to threaten an expansion of the war in the region.
Mediators step up efforts to end the hostilities as Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni holds talks with senior Pakistani officials, including Army Chief Asim Munir, in Islamabad.
Trump meets Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and promises to broker peace with Israel, but will not say when Israeli troops might withdraw from southern Lebanon.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
3.7%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
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Availability Heuristic
22.7%Availability Heuristic
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22.7%AuthorEnes Abuomer
4.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
1.3%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Framing Effect
47.9%Framing Effect
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47.9%AuthorEnes Abuomer
13.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
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Sunk Cost Effect
18.5%Sunk Cost Effect
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18.5%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Pessimism Bias
21%Pessimism Bias
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21%AuthorEnes Abuomer
2.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Negativity Bias
56.3%Negativity Bias
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56.3%AuthorEnes Abuomer
13%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
1.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.8%PublicationAl Jazeera
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
1.1%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.2%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Recency Bias
29.4%Recency Bias
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29.4%AuthorEnes Abuomer
2.9%PublicationAl Jazeera
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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
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
3.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
2.7%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.6%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
26.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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26.9%AuthorEnes Abuomer
3.5%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorEnes Abuomer
0.4%PublicationAl Jazeera
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0.9%PublicationAl Jazeera
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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
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
21%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
26.9%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
10.9%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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119 words analyzed.
Analysis
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