BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Optimism Bias, and Begging the Question, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 26.1% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 181 faulty-reasoning hits from 180 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70% and a BS Rank of 75% (3,574 of 14,081 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.60% of the article peer group.

Have we finally discovered the final location of Amelia Earhart’s historic and mysterious flight? 
One research team believes a long-ignored anomaly in a remote Pacific lagoon may hold the key to understanding Earhart’s fate. 
Their theory is the focus of a new Pop Mech story called  After 89 Years, the Clue Leading to Amelia Earhart’s Plane May Have Surfaced. 
It’s Been There the Whole Time.” 
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How ‘Rebooting’ Your Eye Could Cure Vision Loss 
A Navy Admiral Thinks There Are UFOs in the Ocean 
Scientists Just Made Old Cells Young Again. 
Have We Finally Found Amelia Earhart's Plane? 
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A Simple Hack Could Boost Your Memory 
Some People Don’t Just Track Time—They See It. 
A Portal to the Fifth Dimension? 
A Brain Boost in Just 3 Minutes 
Bad Luck May Not Be Random 
Confirmation Bias
26.1%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
7.8%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
3.3%
Overconfidence Bias
3.9%
Framing Effect
4.4%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
12.2%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
16.7%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
3.9%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
11.7%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
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
10.6%

180 words analyzed.

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