Daily Kos84%
Diarrhea parasite continues its rampage, and Trump hides Iran war carnage 98%
By Daily Kos Staff96%
7/21/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Topics: US Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Ad Hominem, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 91.2% saturation with 103 hits. Analysis detected 657 faulty-reasoning hits from 113 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 97.1% and a BS Rank of 98% (466 of 18,915 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 97.50% of the article peer group.
Trump is running out of space for his garish gold garbage
This is getting ridiculous.
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Oh, how we miss a working government.
Trump caught hiding true carnage of Iran war
But *sure,* it’s all under control.
Wealth gap lesson #1
CEOs make too much damn money.
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As if buying off the Supreme Court wasn’t enough.
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Confirmation Bias
39.8%Confirmation Bias
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39.8%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
5.3%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
13.3%Framing Effect
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13.3%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
21.3%PublicationDaily Kos
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Loss Aversion
0%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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0%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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Pessimism Bias
15%Pessimism Bias
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15%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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Negativity Bias
81.4%Negativity Bias
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81.4%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
35.1%PublicationDaily Kos
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0.6%PublicationDaily Kos
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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
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%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
9.7%Recency Bias
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9.7%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
1%PublicationDaily Kos
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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
44.2%Ad Hominem
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44.2%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
16.2%PublicationDaily Kos
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Straw Man
5.3%Straw Man
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5.3%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
2%PublicationDaily Kos
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
9.7%False Dilemma
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9.7%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
2.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0.6%PublicationDaily Kos
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
18.6%Hasty Generalization
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14.9%PublicationDaily Kos
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Red Herring
9.7%Red Herring
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0.6%PublicationDaily Kos
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
91.2%Appeal to Emotion
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91.2%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
19.4%PublicationDaily Kos
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Begging the Question
24.8%Begging the Question
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24.8%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
4.4%PublicationDaily Kos
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
9.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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2.6%PublicationDaily Kos
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
13.3%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%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)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
3.5%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
34.5%Unattributed Quote
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34.5%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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Quote-first Misdirection
15%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
81.4%Biased Writer Voice
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81.4%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
48.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Indoctrination
13.3%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
37.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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37.2%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
31.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
5.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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5.3%AuthorDaily Kos Staff
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113 words analyzed.
Analysis
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