ABC News98%
A pregnant passenger gave birth aboard a flight from Atlanta to Portland, Oregon. 98%
4/27/2026, 11:24:23 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Authority, and Status Quo Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 72.4% saturation with 76 hits. Analysis detected 419 faulty-reasoning hits from 105 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 97.5% and a BS Rank of 98% (387 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.70% of the video peer group.
A flight from Atlanta to Portland, Oregon, landed with one extra passenger on board.
There, there they are.
Delta confirming that a passenger gave birth about 30 minutes before landing.
A doctor and two nurses stepping in to assist the flight crew.
And it's not known how far along the passenger was in their pregnancy, but all went well.
Delta says on their website that the airline does not quote impose restrictions on flying if you're pregnant, noting that it doesn't require any sort of medical certificate for pregnant passengers to Travel.
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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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
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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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
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False Dilemma
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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
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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
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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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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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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105 words analyzed.
Analysis
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