Third person dies in Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Upper East Side ⁠65%

By John Annese⁠59% Roni Jacobson⁠63%

7/19/2026, 1:08:50 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias and Negativity Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 41.2% saturation with 21 hits. Analysis detected 48 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠65% (7,856 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.10% of the article peer group.

So far, 74 people have been affected by the outbreak, with 62 of them needing hospitalization. 
Nine remain hospitalized. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%John Annese: 3.0%newyorkdailynews: 3.2%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 31.4%John Annese: 0.9%newyorkdailynews: 0.8%Anchoring Bias31.4%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 3.6%newyorkdailynews: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.4%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.3%newyorkdailynews: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.0%newyorkdailynews: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 6.2%newyorkdailynews: 6.1%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.8%newyorkdailynews: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 21.6%John Annese: 15.9%newyorkdailynews: 9.8%Negativity Bias21.6%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.7%newyorkdailynews: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.4%newyorkdailynews: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.4%newyorkdailynews: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.9%newyorkdailynews: 1.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 3.9%newyorkdailynews: 3.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.4%newyorkdailynews: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.7%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.0%newyorkdailynews: 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 2.1%newyorkdailynews: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.0%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 2.9%newyorkdailynews: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.7%newyorkdailynews: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 9.4%newyorkdailynews: 7.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.7%newyorkdailynews: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 2.0%newyorkdailynews: 3.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 2.9%newyorkdailynews: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.5%newyorkdailynews: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 4.2%newyorkdailynews: 2.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 1.9%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 5.4%newyorkdailynews: 6.7%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.8%newyorkdailynews: 3.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%John Annese: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 41.2%John Annese: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…41.2%

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