You Will Not Believe How Often Trump Defended Sex Criminals ⁠72%

By Tim Miller⁠0% Sarah Longwell⁠0%

7/10/2026, 11:02:38 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Left Leaning Bias, Framing Effect, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 45.2% saturation with 117 hits. Analysis detected 488 faulty-reasoning hits from 259 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠72% (3,960 of 13,766 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 71.20% of the article peer group.

Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell 
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Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
43.6%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
20.8%
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
1.2%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
10%
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
0%
Biased Writer Voice
45.2%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
45.2%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
22.4%

259 words analyzed.

Analysis

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