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Oregon awarded $160M to expand the semiconductor industry and boost economic development ⁠3%

By Allison Frost⁠0%

7/23/2026, 8:29:21 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Halo Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 27.8% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 373 faulty-reasoning hits from 205 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 15.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠3% (21,257 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.10% of the article peer group.

About 100 different industry, government and academic organizations are part of the consortium that will spend $160 million over the next 10 years to increase research on and production of semiconductors. 
These components are vital to virtually every electronic device you are likely to use, from mobile phones to home appliances. 
Industry and government leaders say it’s vital that the U.S. keep up with demand and support its semiconductor research, development and production. 
That’s the intention behind the Frontiers of Advanced Semiconductor Technology, or FAST, grant. 
Oregon State University is coordinating the consortium’s efforts. 
Rob Stone is a Professor of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at OSU, and the interim CEO and principal investigator of FAST. 
He joins us to share more about how the money will be used and its effect on Oregon’s economy. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 10.7%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.8%Confirmation Bias10.7%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 15.1%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.6%Availability Heuristic15.1%This article: 9.8%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic9.8%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 12.2%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 4.7%Framing Effect12.2%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.9%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.7%Optimism Bias5.9%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 6.2%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 9.3%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.3%Self-Serving Bias9.3%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 20.5%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.4%Halo Effect20.5%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 21.5%Allison Frost: 10.7%Associated Press: 3.5%Appeal to Authority21.5%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 4.9%Associated Press: 2.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 6.3%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Begging the Question6.3%This article: 5.9%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)5.9%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 9.8%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Composition/Division9.8%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.7%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.5%Unattributed Quote10.7%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 16.6%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.6%Biased Writer Voice16.6%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 27.8%Allison Frost: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…27.8%

205 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker11%attributed speech183writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageRob Stone • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 43 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Rob Stone

100%flagged-word coverage
22 attributed words100% of attributed speech95% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+93.4 ptsWriter: 6.6%Rob Stone: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -31.1 ptsWriter: 31.1%Rob Stone: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-12.0 ptsWriter: 12.0%Rob Stone: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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