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- By Jessica McDonald
- 7/2/2026, 4:33 PM
Appeal to Authority 15.1% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 14.9% - Overconfidence Bias 10.6%
Politicians of both political parties have blamed either the Trump or the Biden administration for the arrival of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly that affects the cattle industry, in the U.S. after decades of eradication. But experts say the reasons are different or more complicated than either side is saying — and that it’s... more
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- By Eugene Kiely
- 6/22/2026, 7:19 PM
Appeal to Authority 21.2% - Negativity Bias 16.9% - Hasty Generalization 13.5%
As he has done for years, President Donald Trump claims – without evidence – that the federal Right to Try law he signed in 2018 has “saved thousands of lives.” But the White House provided no support for Trump’s claim about the law, which provides an alternative route for seriously ill patients to access unapproved drugs outside of... more
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- By Kate Yandell
- 6/18/2026, 4:26 PM
Pessimism Bias 23.5% - Negativity Bias 21.7% - Appeal to Authority 9%
President Donald Trump has touted more than $500 billion in prescription drug savings over 10 years from his policies. But the savings are largely aspirational, and not based on the more limited actions the administration has taken so far. The administration’s most favored nation policy seeks to bring down drug prices to levels... more
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- By Robert Farley
- 6/12/2026, 12:24 PM
Appeal to Authority 27.1% - Negativity Bias 15.4% - Appeal to Emotion 9.6%
President Donald Trump waded into the contentious “right to repair” your own auto debate, but he recounted a wildly inaccurate anecdote to bolster his support for consumers. According to Trump, in remarks on June 4, “They gave a man seven years in jail, actually, because he fixed his own car.” The following day, at a roundtable on... more
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- By Saranac Hale Spencer
- 6/11/2026, 5:30 PM
Appeal to Authority 25.6% - Quote-first Misdirection 22.9% - Availability Heuristic 20.2%
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began filling with water on June 4 following maintenance work that President Donald Trump called a “big project.” In late May, Trump claimed that “the Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed,” adding that his... more
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- By D, #039, Angelo Gore, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley
- 6/9/2026, 8:55 PM
Hasty Generalization 6% - Overconfidence Bias 5.7% - Appeal to Emotion 3.6%
President Donald Trump walked out of a sit-down interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” That happened after he made, or repeated, a number of false and unsupported claims — some of which Welker pushed back on. Trump seized on the slow vote-counting procedures in California to claim, without evidence, that its recent... more