What can erectile dysfunction say about men’s health? ⁠96%

4/22/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 85% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 236 faulty-reasoning hits from 60 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠96% (1,057 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.20% of the article peer group.

Erectile dysfunction is commonly thought of as a sexual health issue, but experts say the condition can reveal a lot about men’s health. 
Dr. 
Dean Elterman, a urologist at the University Health Network in Toronto, says ED can be connected to a host of other health problems including diabetes and heart disease. 
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: 85.0%CBC: 3.1%Availability Heuristic85.0%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: 51.7%CBC: 4.2%Framing Effect51.7%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: 46.7%CBC: 5.7%Negativity Bias46.7%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: 38.3%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect38.3%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: 85.0%CBC: 3.7%Appeal to Authority85.0%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: 46.7%CBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)46.7%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: 1.7%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote1.7%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 38.3%CBC: 4.8%Biased Writer Voice38.3%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: 0.0%CBC: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

60 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker47%attributed speech32writer words
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Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 100.0% coverageDean Elterman • 28 words • 0.0% coverage
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Dean Elterman

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28 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Biased Writer Voice-71.9 ptsWriter: 71.9%Dean Elterman: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-3.1 ptsWriter: 3.1%Dean Elterman: 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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