Five people drowned in Ohio as heavy rains lead to rescues across the U.S. ^⁠97%

7/21/2026, 4:50:35 AM

Topics: Video

BS Summary: This video contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Hasty Generalization, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 69.6% saturation with 156 hits. Analysis detected 892 faulty-reasoning hits from 224 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 94.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠97% (722 of 19,102 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.20% of the video peer group.

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A punishing string of severe summer weather ramping up across the US.

Authorities in Ohio now confirming a mass drowning involving a family. A child forced to flag drivers for help.

Police near Columbus say one swimmer started struggling then others jumped in to help. Two women and three men drowning according to the Associated Press.

>> Immediately fire departments emergency medical police departments responded to the scene to try to assist in the rescue.

>> In other parts of Ohio water rescues have been stacking up by the dozen. Many saved from their cars.

>> I had my three-year-old son in the back.

I had to get out and get him walk around and pull him out of the water.

The water was about up to my waist by the time I got out.

>> Farther west jaw-dropping new video shows a river of mud and debris tearing through Beaver, Utah. Relentless flash flooding now prompting evacuations.

Authorities now saying at least eight people died in flood waters there, including Provo firefighter Captain Spencer Long, his wife and three sons who authorities say had been hiking when the water overtook them. Days of violent storms wreaking havoc across the country as some areas brace for even more severe weather.

Confirmation Bias

Anchoring Bias

Availability Heuristic

17.4%

Representativeness Heuristic

Hindsight Bias

Overconfidence Bias

Framing Effect

30.4%

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

6.3%

Pessimism Bias

Negativity Bias

65.2%

Self-Serving Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

Actor-Observer Bias

In-Group Bias

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

Halo Effect

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

23.2%

Primacy Effect

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

42.9%

False Dilemma

Slippery Slope

10.3%

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

32.1%

Red Herring

Bandwagon

8.9%

Appeal to Emotion

69.6%

Begging the Question

Post Hoc (False Cause)

29.5%

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

17%

Appeal to Nature

5.4%

Composition/Division

Anecdotal

29%

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

11.2%

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

Quote-first Misdirection

Biased Writer Voice

Indoctrination

Politically Left Leaning Bias

Politically Right Leaning Bias

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service

224 words analyzed.

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Five people drowned in Ohio as heavy rains lead to rescues across the U.S. ^⁠97%

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Five people drowned in Ohio as heavy rains lead to rescues across the U.S. ⁠97%

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Five people drowned in Ohio as heavy rains lead to rescues across the U.S. ^⁠97%