BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Pessimism Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 25.8% saturation with 65 hits. Analysis detected 256 faulty-reasoning hits from 252 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.8% and a BS Rank of 64% (6,123 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 63.60% of the article peer group.

Eileen Gannon started playing music with her father, Patrick “PJ” Gannon, when she was a kid. 
In the past several years, they met for weekly jam sessions. 
PJ Gannon died on Aug. 26. 
For many people, the holiday season is a time of celebration, but the end of the year can also be heavy with mourning those who are no longer with us. 
A portrait of Bill Clay Sr. midway through his long tenure in Congress. 
Clay died on July 16. 
This episode of St. Louis on the Air commemorates remarkable people who lived and worked in the St. Louis area. 
We explore the legacies of journalists including Linda Lockhart; civil rights advocates Anita Lyons Bond and longtime U.S. Rep. William L. Clay Sr.; and Patrick “PJ” Gannon and Jim Holloran, who, in different ways, were instrumental figures in building up the region’s Irish music scene. 
To everyone who will be missing someone at the table this holiday season, we, the St. Louis on the Air team, extend our hearts to you. 
Hear our tribute to people who died in 2025 by listening to St. Louis on the Air on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or by clicking the play button below. 
“St. Louis on the Air” brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. 
The show is produced by Miya Norfleet, Emily Woodbury, Danny Wicentowski, Elaine Cha and Alex Heuer. 
Darrious Varner is our production assistant. 
The audio engineer is Aaron Doerr. 
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Confirmation Bias
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Framing Effect
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Halo Effect
25.8%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Horn Effect
0%
In-Group Bias
9.1%
Loss Aversion
0%
Negativity Bias
22.2%
Optimism Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
22.2%
Primacy Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Anecdotal
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
Appeal to Emotion
22.2%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Composition/Division
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Middle Ground
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Red Herring
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Straw Man
0%
Tu Quoque
0%

252 words analyzed.

Analysis

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