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Author: Nick Bowlin

Nick Bowlin has ^11.2% among authors. BS Score: 1.5%. Articles analyzed: 5. Words analyzed: 41,922.

Top reasoning patterns

Negativity Bias - 13.4% (5,604 hits)
Framing Effect - 6.4% (2,680 hits)
Appeal to Emotion - 6.3% (2,628 hits)
Confirmation Bias - 5.1% (2,133 hits)
Biased Writer Voice - 5% (2,102 hits)
Availability Heuristic - 4.4% (1,855 hits)
Appeal to Authority - 3.4% (1,441 hits)
Post Hoc (False Cause) - 2.6% (1,089 hits)

Analyzed articles

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk ^34.2%

ProPublica - By Nick Bowlin, Al Shaw - 6/30/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 17.7% - Appeal to Emotion 13% - Biased Writer Voice 11.1%

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one of the state’s biggest industries. This... more

Toxic Ground: How Oil Field Pollution Is Threatening Oklahoma ^59.8%

ProPublica - By Katie Campbell, Nick Bowlin - 6/2/2026, 10:00 AM

Appeal to Authority 29% - Anecdotal 23.3% - Negativity Bias 19.9%

Kara Meredith can tell you the exact day her life turned upside down: Aug. 23, 2025. She was at her home in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, caring for her 5-week-old son, when one of her daughters ran to tell her there was water all over the bathroom floor. Her husband, Mitch Meredith, wasn’t worried — until he saw the dark liquid bubbling up... more

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. ^37.1%

ProPublica - By Nick Bowlin, Katie Campbell - 5/18/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 25.6% - Confirmation Bias 17% - Biased Writer Voice 16.7%

It was their dream home, a newly built, 2,500-square-foot modern farmhouse with a playroom that Mitch and Kara Meredith had saved for 12 years to buy for their growing family. During construction, family members had written their favorite Bible verses on studs throughout the house. For four idyllic years on Darlene Lane, the couple... more

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings. ^20%

ProPublica - By Nick Bowlin - 3/17/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 39.8% - Negativity Bias 33.4% - Appeal to Authority 19.1%

Five years ago, Oklahoma oil regulators took on a project with an impressive name: the Source of Truth. State officials wanted a comprehensive database capturing all vital information about the more than 11,000 wells in Oklahoma that shoot the toxic byproduct of oil production back underground. I’d heard about this project from several... more

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. ^40.9%

ProPublica - By Nick Bowlin - 10/29/2025, 9:30 AM

Negativity Bias 26.8% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 13.9% - Appeal to Emotion 12.6%

In January 2020, Danny Ray started a complicated job with the Oklahoma agency that regulates oil and gas. The petroleum engineer who’d spent more than 40 years in the oil fields had been hired to help address a spreading problem, one that state regulators did not fully understand. The year prior, toxic water had poured out of the ground... more

Author: Nick Bowlin

Top reasoning patterns

Analyzed articles

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk 34.2%

Toxic Ground: How Oil Field Pollution Is Threatening Oklahoma 59.8%

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. 37.1%

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings. 20%

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. 40.9%

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk ^34.2%

Toxic Ground: How Oil Field Pollution Is Threatening Oklahoma ^59.8%

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. ^37.1%

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings. ^20%

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. ^40.9%