What can a full-body MRI actually tell me about my health? ⁠77%

4/15/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Quote-first Misdirection, and Confirmation Bias, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 25% saturation with 19 hits. Analysis detected 136 faulty-reasoning hits from 76 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 68.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠77% (5,138 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 76.50% of the article peer group.

Some private clinics in Canada are offering whole-body MRIs that can run thousands of dollars. 
They claim these scans can detect a range of issues, and can find cancers in the early stages. 
Dr. 
Iain Kirkpatrick, the head of radiology at St. 
Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, explains what a whole-body MRI can - and can't - tell you about your health. 
Aired: April 16, 2026 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 23.7%CBC: 2.6%Confirmation Bias23.7%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: 19.7%CBC: 4.2%Framing Effect19.7%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: 0.0%CBC: 4.0%Optimism Bias0.0%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: 25.0%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect25.0%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: 25.0%CBC: 3.7%Appeal to Authority25.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.3%False Dilemma0.0%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: 23.7%CBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)23.7%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%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: 11.8%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote11.8%This article: 25.0%CBC: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection25.0%This article: 1.3%CBC: 4.8%Biased Writer Voice1.3%This article: 0.0%CBC: 2.4%Indoctrination0.0%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: 23.7%CBC: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…23.7%

76 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker36%attributed speech49writer words
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Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 100.0% coverageIain Kirkpatrick • 8 words • 100.0% coverageIain Kirkpatrick • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverage
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Iain Kirkpatrick

100%flagged-word coverage
27 attributed words100% of attributed speech69% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Quote-first Misdirection+70.4 ptsWriter: 0.0%Iain Kirkpatrick: 70.4%70.4%Attempt to Sell a Product -36.7 ptsWriter: 36.7%Iain Kirkpatrick: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+27.6 ptsWriter: 2.0%Iain Kirkpatrick: 29.6%29.6%Biased Writer Voice-2.0 ptsWriter: 2.0%Iain Kirkpatrick: 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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