After Trump pauses war, Iranians fly flags of victory, not surrender 93%
By Steve Hendrix0%
4/9/2026, 9:00:09 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including False Dilemma, Availability Heuristic, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 59.5% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 320 faulty-reasoning hits from 79 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.6% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,270 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.50% of the article peer group.
LONDON — Shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to erase the “whole civilization” of Iran, all 6,000 years of it, the crowds came out into the streets of Tehran waving flags — and not white ones.
They bore the green, white and red banners of the still-standing Islamic Republic.
Some set fire to the star-spangled ones of the superpower that, according to state media, they had just “humiliated.”
Confirmation Bias
24.1%Confirmation Bias
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24.1%AuthorSteve Hendrix
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
45.6%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
59.5%Framing Effect
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59.5%AuthorSteve Hendrix
30.4%PublicationThe Washington Post
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
16.5%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
38%Negativity Bias
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38%AuthorSteve Hendrix
29%PublicationThe Washington Post
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
16.5%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
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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6.7%PublicationThe Washington Post
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Primacy Effect
0%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
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
59.5%False Dilemma
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59.5%AuthorSteve Hendrix
3.4%PublicationThe Washington Post
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%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
24.1%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
45.6%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
13.9%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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79 words analyzed.
Analysis
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