Journalists Dig Into HHS’ Covid Injury List, ACA Sign-Ups, and Telehealth 18%

7/18/2026, 9:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 46.8% saturation with 65 hits. Analysis detected 234 faulty-reasoning hits from 139 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.3% and a BS Rank of 18% (14,537 of 17,596 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.60% of the article peer group.

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the Department of Health and Human Services’ plan to offer compensation for automatic covid vaccine injuries and the drop in enrollment in Affordable Care Act health plans on CBS’ The Takeout With Major Garrett on July 10 and 9, respectively. 
Click here to watch Gounder discuss automatic covid vaccine injury compensation on The Takeout With Major Garrett . 
Click here to watch Gounder discuss ACA enrollment on The Takeout With Major Garrett . 
KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed abortion telehealth on WUGA’s The Georgia Health Report on July 10. 
Click here to hear Whitehead on The Georgia Health Report . 
Read Kate Wells’  A Ban Won’t Stop Abortion Pill Access, Telehealth Providers Say .” 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
18.7%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
46.8%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
46.8%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
10.8%
Biased Writer Voice
13.7%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
31.7%

139 words analyzed.

Analysis

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