The Dispatch17%
A Record Cyclospora Outbreak 58%
By James P. Sutton5% Evan Spear5% Ross Anderson5%
7/20/2026, 11:08:21 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Recency Bias, and Red Herring, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 49.1% saturation with 26 hits. Analysis detected 219 faulty-reasoning hits from 53 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.3% and a BS Rank of 58% (7,991 of 18,798 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.50% of the article peer group.
A Record Cyclospora Outbreak
Happy Monday!
Exciting news for anyone with a black leather jacket in the closet: One just sold at Sotheby’s for $960,000.
Plus: three U.S. troops are killed in the Iran war, Russia launches a major missile barrage on Kyiv, and one very expensive leather jacket.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
35.8%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
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
35.8%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
3.8%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
45.3%Negativity Bias
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45.3%AuthorJames P. Sutton
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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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
0%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
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
45.3%Recency Bias
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45.3%AuthorJames P. Sutton
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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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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
45.3%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
35.8%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%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
45.3%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
35.8%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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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
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
49.1%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
35.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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53 words analyzed.
Analysis
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