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Trump can’t let Reflecting Pool drama go, and food prices keep rising 90%
By Daily Kos Staff99%
7/15/2026, 12:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Politically Left Leaning Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 72.4% saturation with 113 hits. Analysis detected 788 faulty-reasoning hits from 156 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.1% and a BS Rank of 90% (1,734 of 15,985 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.20% of the article peer group.
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Confirmation Bias
19.2%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
19.9%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
66%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
5.8%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
33.3%Pessimism Bias
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33.3%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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Negativity Bias
57.1%Negativity Bias
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57.1%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
36%PublicationDaily Kos
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
17.3%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
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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
3.2%Recency Bias
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3.2%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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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
11.5%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
2.6%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
10.3%False Dilemma
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10.3%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
2.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
26.9%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
13.5%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
3.2%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
29.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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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
72.4%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
26.9%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
55.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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156 words analyzed.
Analysis
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