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The Last Word58%
By Lawrence O’Donnell0%
10/29/2025, 11:44:07 PM
Topics: Current Events, Investigative Journalism
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Begging the Question, and Halo Effect, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 62.5% saturation with 20 hits. Analysis detected 100 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.6% and a BS Rank of 58% (7,171 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.40% of the article peer group.
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
62.5%Confirmation Bias
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62.5%AuthorLawrence O’Donnell
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
62.5%Framing Effect
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62.5%AuthorLawrence O’Donnell
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
37.5%Halo Effect
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37.5%AuthorLawrence O’Donnell
27.9%PublicationMS NOW
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
25%In-Group Bias
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25%AuthorLawrence O’Donnell
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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3.9%PublicationMS NOW
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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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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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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Appeal to Authority
25%Appeal to Authority
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Appeal to Emotion
37.5%Appeal to Emotion
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37.5%AuthorLawrence O’Donnell
8.8%PublicationMS NOW
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Begging the Question
62.5%Begging the Question
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
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32 words analyzed.
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.