A new species of walking shark has been found in Papua New Guinea 2%

By Brianna Randall0%

7/1/2026, 1:00:00 PM

Keywords: Briefs, Multimedia, Shark

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Hasty Generalization, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 18.3% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 168 faulty-reasoning hits from 180 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.9% and a BS Rank of 2% (20,918 of 21,164 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.80% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 3.9%Science News: 1.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 16.1%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 2.5%Availability Heuristic16.1%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 2.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 4.2%Framing Effect6.7%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 18.3%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 4.2%Optimism Bias18.3%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.1%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 4.1%Negativity Bias6.1%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 1.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 5.6%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Primacy Effect5.6%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 4.4%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 4.5%Appeal to Authority4.4%This article: 1.1%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 1.1%False Dilemma1.1%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.8%Brianna Randall: 2.2%Science News: 4.0%Hasty Generalization7.8%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 2.8%Science News: 2.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 5.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 1.2%Anecdotal5.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 8.3%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)8.3%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 4.4%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.8%Unattributed Quote4.4%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 4.4%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 2.6%Biased Writer Voice4.4%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.0%Brianna Randall: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.0%

180 words analyzed.

Speakers

6speakers29%attributed speech127writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageScience News on Animals • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageErin Garcia de Jesús • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageLibby Riddle • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageLibby Riddle • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageHannah Thomasy • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageNora Bradford • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageErin Garcia de Jesús • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageBethany Brookshire • 6 words • 0.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
7 attributed words13% of attributed speech78% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +98.4 ptsWriter: 1.6%Science News on Animals: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-6.3 ptsWriter: 6.3%Science News on Animals: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-6.3 ptsWriter: 6.3%Science News on Animals: 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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