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T. rex named Gus sells for record-setting $50.1 million 91%

7/15/2026, 11:18:12 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Framing Effect, and Recency Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 70.7% saturation with 65 hits. Analysis detected 524 faulty-reasoning hits from 92 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87% and a BS Rank of 91% (1,427 of 15,858 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 91.00% of the video peer group.

The king of the dinosaurs now ruling over the auction market. 
This 12 1/2t tall T-Rex skeleton setting a colossal record selling today, get this, for more than 50 million bones, making it the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever. 
It was found on a property in South Dakota in 2021 and named Gust after the property owner. 
The sale is controversial with some paleontologists saying it should be in a museum where the public can see it instead of with a private buyer. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
30.4%
Availability Heuristic
30.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
19.6%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
30.4%
Framing Effect
52.2%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
70.7%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
19.6%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
28.3%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
12%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
40.2%
Primacy Effect
9.8%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
28.3%
False Dilemma
28.3%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
30.4%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
9.8%
Appeal to Emotion
30.4%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
28.3%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
70.7%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

92 words analyzed.

Analysis

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