BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 30.4% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 230 faulty-reasoning hits from 171 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.4% and a BS Rank of 35% (10,975 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 65.30% of the article peer group.
That loophole is enabled by a 20-pound device, called a node.
You stick it in the ground, it connects to a satellite, and then it listens for anomalies beneath the earth—anomalies that could indicate the presence of things like copper, gold, lithium, or other important minerals.
These are the kinds of resources that make modern life possible.
And because these nodes make a relatively small impact, there aren’t yet regulations about where they can be placed.
The journalist Lauren Steele has been covering this story for “The Atlantic.”
She accompanied two mountain guides who’d been paid to plant these nodes in Utah’s Tushar Mountains.
She’s joining us to talk about how these nodes are changing the future of mining in Utah, elsewhere around the country, and maybe even in outer space.
GUEST –
Lauren Steele | Journalist and filmmaker.
The story she wrote for “The Atlantic” is called “The Mysterious Devices Speeding Mining Exploration in Utah.”
Airdate: Apr.
8, 2026
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
6.4%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
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
15.8%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%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
3.5%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
7%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
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
20.5%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
15.8%Slippery Slope
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15.8%AuthorLauren Steele
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
11.1%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
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
17.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
6.4%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%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
30.4%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
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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171 words analyzed.
Analysis
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