NBC News99%
Officials are racing to track hantavirus as some cruise ship passengers return to the U.S. 99%
5/8/2026, 12:51:37 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Anchoring Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 425 faulty-reasoning hits from 104 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 99% (193 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.90% of the video peer group.
The ship at the center of the deadly haunt virus outbreak headed to the Canary Islands where preparations are underway.
But passengers who disembarked from the ship early have spread across the globe.
The UK announcing another suspected case on the remote island of Tristan Duna.
Singapore confirming it's monitoring two passengers.
But some positive news.
The Dutch flight attendant hospitalized with symptoms now testing negative for the virus according to health officials.
Still, some of the cruise passengers are back in the US in at least five states.
Confirmation Bias
16.3%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
34.6%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
26.9%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
19.2%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
14.4%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
20.2%Framing Effect
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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
3.8%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
15.4%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
50%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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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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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
44.2%Recency Bias
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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
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
34.6%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
27.9%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
37.5%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
19.2%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
12.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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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
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
16.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
15.4%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%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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104 words analyzed.
Analysis
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