WBUR⁠9%

'Wildfire Days': Author Kelly Ramsey recounts her days as a hotshot firefighter ⁠2%

By Here⁠38% Now Newsroom⁠38%

7/10/2026, 12:01:43 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 54.3% saturation with 44 hits. Analysis detected 54 faulty-reasoning hits from 81 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 12.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠2% (21,474 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.10% of the article peer group.

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We revisit host Peter O'Dowd's June 2025 conversation with Kelly Ramsey about her book "Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West" in which she tells the story of the two seasons she worked as a hotshot firefighter in California. 
The book came out in paperback June 23. 
This segment aired on July 10, 2026. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Here: 1.6%Cognoscenti: 2.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 7.9%Cognoscenti: 2.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 1.7%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 29.1%Cognoscenti: 3.9%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 3.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 20.5%Cognoscenti: 5.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.7%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 14.0%Cognoscenti: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 1.5%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 5.6%Cognoscenti: 2.6%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 3.4%Cognoscenti: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.7%Cognoscenti: 3.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 3.4%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 5.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 3.4%Cognoscenti: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 3.1%Cognoscenti: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 2.0%Cognoscenti: 0.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.7%Cognoscenti: 0.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 54.3%Here: 23.6%Cognoscenti: 3.0%Biased Writer Voice54.3%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 4.8%Cognoscenti: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 12.3%Here: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…12.3%

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