What can I do now to live longer and healthier? 83%

6/12/2025, 2:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Halo Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 66.4% saturation with 79 hits. Analysis detected 436 faulty-reasoning hits from 119 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.6% and a BS Rank of 83% (3,801 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.60% of the article peer group.

To live longer, healthier lives, we need to eat a balanced diet, get enough exercise and sleep, and go easy on the alcohol. 
While the solutions are simple, building healthy habits is more complicated. 
Dr. 
Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and author of Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity, explains why we should aim for a long "healthspan" versus "lifespan," and offers advice on how to build the habits that will help get us there. 
For transcripts of The Dose, please visit: lnk.to/dose-transcripts. 
Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%CBC: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 3.1%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 19.3%CBC: 4.2%Framing Effect19.3%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 29.4%CBC: 4.0%Optimism Bias29.4%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 5.7%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 37.8%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect37.8%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 37.8%CBC: 3.7%Appeal to Authority37.8%This article: 19.3%CBC: 1.3%False Dilemma19.3%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 4.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 37.8%CBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)37.8%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 9.2%CBC: 0.1%Middle Ground9.2%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 37.8%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote37.8%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 66.4%CBC: 4.8%Biased Writer Voice66.4%This article: 19.3%CBC: 2.4%Indoctrination19.3%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 52.1%CBC: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…52.1%

119 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker38%attributed speech74writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageEric Topol • 45 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Eric Topol

100%flagged-word coverage
45 attributed words100% of attributed speech85% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Eric Topol: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +77.0 ptsWriter: 23.0%Eric Topol: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+54.1 ptsWriter: 45.9%Eric Topol: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-31.1 ptsWriter: 31.1%Eric Topol: 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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