Author: Padraig Moran
Padraig Moran
has 3.6% among authors.
BS Score: 1.2%.
Articles analyzed: 5.
Words analyzed: 21,828.
Analyzed articles
CBC Radio
- By Padraig Moran
- 6/14/2026, 8:00 AM
Appeal to Authority 18.6% - Negativity Bias 15.9% - Appeal to Emotion 9.2%
Hannah Hughes was backcountry skiing on a Norwegian mountain in March, when she heard a rumbling. “Someone yelled avalanche … it was maybe 20 or 30 metres away,” said Hughes, a massage therapist and travel content creator in Whistler, B.C. “It was like being hit by a truck … it just took me off my feet instantly and I was under the snow... more
CBC Radio
- By Padraig Moran
- 5/23/2026, 8:00 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 9.9% - Appeal to Emotion 8.5% - Pessimism Bias 7.8%
When Sean Picard couldn’t pay back almost $30,000 he owed on his credit card, he didn’t know where to turn for help — and spent years trying to just ignore the problem. “I was basically just throwing money at interest, where it wasn't going down. I was … avoiding calls from the bank, trying to just make the problem go away,” said Picard,... more
CBC Radio
- By Padraig Moran
- 5/12/2026, 8:00 AM
Unattributed Quote 11.6% - Availability Heuristic 10.3% - Appeal to Emotion 9.9%
With one day left to fill out the 2026 census, some Canadians will notice a few very specific questions, like what time you leave for work in the morning. “The census data are the best source of commuting patterns, so transit planners all across the country will use information on where we live and where we work,” said Geoff Bowlby,... more
CBC Radio
- By Padraig Moran
- 11/18/2025, 4:57 PM
Negativity Bias 29.9% - Appeal to Emotion 29.9% - Pessimism Bias 24.4%
Acclaimed novelist John Irving won’t be travelling to the U.S. to promote his new book, because he thinks U.S. President Donald Trump has made his “beloved birth country virtually unrecognizable.” “What Trump is doing — in the overreach of his executive power — is overreaching democracy. But I don't know how many Americans recognize it... more
CBC Radio
- By Padraig Moran
- 11/6/2025, 9:00 AM
Halo Effect 6.2% - Hasty Generalization 6% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 5.5%
Margaret Atwood’s new memoir Book of Lives explores how the world has shaped her writing, and how that writing in turn shaped her life I’m 85, and can write freely in memoir because ‘a lot of people have died,’ says Atwood Margaret Atwood is best known as a celebrated novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic — but she can also turn... more