BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Framing Effect, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 49.4% saturation with 80 hits. Analysis detected 567 faulty-reasoning hits from 162 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.7% and a BS Rank of 82% (3,544 of 19,667 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.00% of the article peer group.
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Lynnwood teacher accused of inappropriate touching kept in classroom for 20 months
A school district didn’t investigate for a year after the first complaint about a special-education teacher and did not interview students.
Then a student reported sexual assault.
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