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Good News: High school football team surprises coach as he battles cancer ⁠90%

7/15/2026, 11:47:06 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Halo Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 51.4% saturation with 111 hits. Analysis detected 699 faulty-reasoning hits from 216 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 85.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠90% (1,608 of 16,136 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 90.00% of the video peer group.

Let's go boys. 
>> They ran through the streets of their city fueled by purpose. 
This high school football team from the University Christian School in Jacksonville showing up for one of their own. 
Assistant Coach Matt Thomas is battling cancer. 
His whole team, dozens of players, running to his house before summer conditioning. 
Coming together to pray AND SHOW SUPPORT. 
COACH THOMAS WENT TO THE SCHOOL himself and coached his sons THERE AS WELL. 
THE MORNING RUN. 
>> LET'S GO BOYS. 
>> A reminder of the strength of a team and the power of community. 
>> I feel really emotional. The prayer it was just so powerful. 
>> Julius LaRosa is a rising senior. He's played defense under Coach Thomas for years. 
>> It makes me and makes our teammates want to play as hard as we can to our fullest. 
>> Also sharing this powerful message. 
>> Thinking of their coach. 
We love you. We praying for you. 
You know I'm always going to be there for you no matter what the situation is. 
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Confirmation Bias
18.5%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
14.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
11.6%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
18.1%
Loss Aversion
7.4%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
15.3%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
8.8%
Self-Serving Bias
8.8%
Fundamental Attribution Error
3.2%
Actor-Observer Bias
6.5%
In-Group Bias
13.4%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
27.8%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
15.7%
Primacy Effect
8.3%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
6.9%
False Dilemma
7.4%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
8.8%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
3.2%
Appeal to Emotion
51.4%
Begging the Question
9.3%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
5.6%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
13%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
32.4%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
1.4%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
6.5%
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
0%

216 words analyzed.

Analysis

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