Nolan Wells' pal begged him to 'get the f--k on the boat' before teen vanished, 'best friend' claims 88%

By Alex Diaz97%

7/24/2026, 12:49:54 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Quote-first Misdirection, Status Quo Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.4% saturation with 82 hits. Analysis detected 507 faulty-reasoning hits from 203 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.1% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,794 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.20% of the article peer group.

A pal of tragic teen Nolan Wells begged him to “get the f--k on the boat” before he was left behind on Horn Island, his self-described “best friend” has claimed. 
Wells, 18, went missing during a Fourth of July boat trip to the barrier island 10 miles off Mississippi's Gulf Coast before his body was found in the water just two days later. 
Questions from Wells’ parents and online amateur sleuths have dogged the promising football player's pals  about why they left him behind and why they were allegedly in possession of his phone and keys. 
Warren Hudson –– who exclusively told The Post Tuesday that he considered Wells his “best friend” –– said that after the boat he had gone to the island on had problems with its bilge pump, Wells was repeatedly asked to get on. 
“My buddy asked Nolan multiple times to get on the boat: ‘Nolan, get on the boat, get on the boat, we’re leaving. 
If you’re coming, you gotta come now,’” Hudson told conservative YouTuber Brandon Tatum. 
“And Nolan made a decision to stay out on the island.” 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 20.2%Alex Diaz: 19.2%California Post: 4.1%Confirmation Bias20.2%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 4.2%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 8.9%Alex Diaz: 8.9%California Post: 10.3%Framing Effect8.9%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 20.7%Alex Diaz: 6.9%California Post: 0.6%Status Quo Bias20.7%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 2.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 16.7%Alex Diaz: 5.6%California Post: 1.5%Pessimism Bias16.7%This article: 40.4%Alex Diaz: 32.5%California Post: 16.0%Negativity Bias40.4%This article: 17.2%Alex Diaz: 5.7%California Post: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias17.2%This article: 5.4%Alex Diaz: 3.6%California Post: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error5.4%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 5.6%California Post: 3.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.6%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 5.4%California Post: 1.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 2.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.5%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 4.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 16.3%Alex Diaz: 11.0%California Post: 5.5%Hasty Generalization16.3%This article: 16.7%Alex Diaz: 5.6%California Post: 0.7%Red Herring16.7%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 14.8%Alex Diaz: 4.9%California Post: 8.9%Appeal to Emotion14.8%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.1%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 14.8%Alex Diaz: 4.9%California Post: 0.8%Burden of Proof14.8%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 8.9%Alex Diaz: 6.6%California Post: 3.6%Anecdotal8.9%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.4%Alex Diaz: 1.8%California Post: 2.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)5.4%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 7.9%California Post: 3.2%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 23.6%Alex Diaz: 13.8%California Post: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection23.6%This article: 19.7%Alex Diaz: 13.6%California Post: 13.1%Biased Writer Voice19.7%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 2.1%California Post: 3.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Diaz: 0.0%California Post: 6.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

203 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker43%attributed speech115writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 34 words • 0.0% coverageWarren Hudson • 42 words • 0.0% coverageWarren Hudson • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWarren Hudson • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWarren Hudson • 11 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Warren Hudson

100%flagged-word coverage
88 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%22.5%45.0%Quote-first Misdirection-41.7 ptsWriter: 41.7%Warren Hudson: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice+9.3 ptsWriter: 15.7%Warren Hudson: 25.0%25.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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