Associated Press100%
Wildfire smoke covers New York, Chicago and much of the US East Coast 99%
7/17/2026, 12:07:55 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Burden of Proof, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 35.3% saturation with 53 hits. Analysis detected 538 faulty-reasoning hits from 150 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 99% (191 of 17,634 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.90% of the video peer group.
I'm a public health nurse and I follow the air quality and heat announcements and I'm only out cuz I have to run a quick errand otherwise I'd be inside.
I'm 72.
I'm healthy but I know what air particles do to the body and um I wish more people were wearing masks and little babies and children were inside.
>> Yeah, it looks like there's some wildfires coming from Canada and it's a bit overwhelming.
I had to run to the store and buy myself a mask and a mercy inhaler and I was not expecting this.
I do have asthma but it really comes out but something like this will definitely trigger it.
So I wanted to be 100% certain I wouldn't have to like, you know, run to the ER or anything like that.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
19.3%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
27.3%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
8.7%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
14.7%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
20%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
33.3%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
18.7%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
31.3%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
1.3%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
14.7%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
21.3%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
14.7%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
33.3%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
33.3%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
35.3%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
11.3%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
8.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
11.3%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
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Indoctrination
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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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150 words analyzed.
Analysis
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