Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk ⁠10%

By Aimee Cunningham⁠0%

7/7/2026, 3:00:00 PM

Keywords: Briefs, Embargo, Fentanyl

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Optimism Bias, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 27.2% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 264 faulty-reasoning hits from 173 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠10% (19,847 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.70% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 6.4%Aimee Cunningham: 1.3%Science News: 2.6%Confirmation Bias6.4%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 2.0%Science News: 1.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 4.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.4%Science News: 2.6%Availability Heuristic4.0%This article: 11.6%Aimee Cunningham: 1.2%Science News: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic11.6%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 2.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 5.8%Aimee Cunningham: 1.8%Science News: 4.1%Framing Effect5.8%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 6.9%Aimee Cunningham: 0.7%Science News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias6.9%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 14.5%Aimee Cunningham: 1.4%Science News: 4.0%Optimism Bias14.5%This article: 6.4%Aimee Cunningham: 0.6%Science News: 1.5%Pessimism Bias6.4%This article: 17.9%Aimee Cunningham: 3.4%Science News: 4.1%Negativity Bias17.9%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 1.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 1.2%Aimee Cunningham: 0.1%Science News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias1.2%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 6.9%Aimee Cunningham: 3.8%Science News: 4.4%Appeal to Authority6.9%This article: 5.2%Aimee Cunningham: 0.5%Science News: 1.2%False Dilemma5.2%This article: 6.4%Aimee Cunningham: 0.6%Science News: 1.1%Slippery Slope6.4%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 9.2%Aimee Cunningham: 3.2%Science News: 3.9%Hasty Generalization9.2%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 1.2%Aimee Cunningham: 0.2%Science News: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion1.2%This article: 6.4%Aimee Cunningham: 0.6%Science News: 0.5%Begging the Question6.4%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 27.2%Aimee Cunningham: 2.7%Science News: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)27.2%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 8.7%Aimee Cunningham: 0.9%Science News: 2.6%Biased Writer Voice8.7%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 6.9%Aimee Cunningham: 0.7%Science News: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…6.9%

173 words analyzed.

Speakers

6speakers28%attributed speech124writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageAimee Cunningham • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageAimee Cunningham • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageIsha Ishtiaq • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageFechi Inyama • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageTina Hesman Saey • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageMichael Howerton • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageAimee Cunningham • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageMeghan Rosen • 6 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Aimee Cunningham

0%flagged-word coverage
18 attributed words37% of attributed speech88% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Biased Writer Voice-12.1 ptsWriter: 12.1%Aimee Cunningham: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -9.7 ptsWriter: 9.7%Aimee Cunningham: 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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