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A new species of walking shark has been found in Papua New Guinea 2%
By Brianna Randall0%
7/1/2026, 1:00:00 PM
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.
July 1, 2026 at 9:00 am
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