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Michigan Supreme Court ruling allows probe into Lilly insulin pricing 43%
By Ed Silverman72%
8/2/2026, 11:14:14 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.3% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 279 faulty-reasoning hits from 139 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41.4% and a BS Rank of 43% (14,605 of 25,564 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 57.10% of the article peer group.
A divided Michigan Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state’s attorney general may investigate Eli Lilly over its pricing practices for insulin.
In its 4-to-3 decision, the court rejected a lower court decision that prevented Michigan Attorney General Dana Nesel from proceeding with a probe that began four years ago.
At the time, Nessel cited state consumer protection laws, alleging the drug maker had artificially increased the price of its insulin medication.
Lilly was accused of charging “grossly” excessive prices for three different insulin products — Lispro, Humalog and Basaglar — that forced some patients to ration or forego insulin, restrict their diets or buy less-effective alternatives.
These practices led to “serious disability and even death in some patients,” the state wrote in court documents at the time.
Confirmation Bias
20.1%Confirmation Bias
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20.1%AuthorEd Silverman
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
7.2%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
40.3%Negativity Bias
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40.3%AuthorEd Silverman
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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
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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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
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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
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
16.5%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
20.1%False Dilemma
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20.1%AuthorEd Silverman
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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
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
40.3%Appeal to Emotion
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40.3%AuthorEd Silverman
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
15.1%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
25.2%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
15.8%Biased Writer Voice
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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139 words analyzed.
Analysis
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