The Bulwark72%
The Second Iran War? 79%
By Jonathan V. Last50%
7/24/2026, 9:06:17 PM
Topics: Geopolitics, Warfare
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, False Dilemma, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 56.4% saturation with 53 hits. Analysis detected 236 faulty-reasoning hits from 94 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.7% and a BS Rank of 79% (4,600 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 79.00% of the article peer group.
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But the big topic is the Department of Defense suddenly removing the names of four dead soldiers from the Iran war casualty list because they were killed after Trump declared a ceasefire in April—because there are now apparently two distinct Iran wars.
Even though neither of them is, for legal purposes, a “war.”
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
54.3%Framing Effect
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54.3%AuthorJonathan V. Last
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
56.4%Negativity Bias
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56.4%AuthorJonathan V. Last
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
44.7%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
11.7%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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94 words analyzed.
Analysis
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