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The nurse practitioners who saved a clinic ⁠100%

By Dr. Brian Goldman⁠0%

5/1/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 59.4% saturation with 41 hits. Analysis detected 367 faulty-reasoning hits from 69 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠100% (34 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 99.80% of the article peer group.

So many Canadian small towns have lost their only doctor. 
But when this happened in Wembley, Alberta, two nurse practitioners stepped in thanks to new provincial legislation allowing NPs to run their own clinics and bill the province directly, as a family doctor would. 
Though doctors’ organizations are pushing back, patients in Wembley are thrilled with this new model of primary care. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 8.0%CBC: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 14.5%Dr. Brian Goldman: 16.5%CBC: 3.1%Availability Heuristic14.5%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 1.1%CBC: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 40.6%Dr. Brian Goldman: 24.2%CBC: 4.2%Framing Effect40.6%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 1.1%CBC: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 49.3%Dr. Brian Goldman: 3.6%CBC: 0.6%Status Quo Bias49.3%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 7.8%CBC: 4.0%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.4%CBC: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 40.6%Dr. Brian Goldman: 20.2%CBC: 5.7%Negativity Bias40.6%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 1.2%CBC: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 1.4%CBC: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 1.1%CBC: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 2.5%CBC: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 10.1%Dr. Brian Goldman: 6.3%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect10.1%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 3.1%CBC: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.6%CBC: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 49.3%Dr. Brian Goldman: 16.9%CBC: 3.7%Appeal to Authority49.3%This article: 26.1%Dr. Brian Goldman: 6.5%CBC: 1.3%False Dilemma26.1%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 14.5%Dr. Brian Goldman: 22.0%CBC: 4.8%Hasty Generalization14.5%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 26.1%Dr. Brian Goldman: 5.9%CBC: 0.6%Bandwagon26.1%This article: 26.1%Dr. Brian Goldman: 11.3%CBC: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion26.1%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 2.5%CBC: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 49.3%Dr. Brian Goldman: 14.7%CBC: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)49.3%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 36.2%Dr. Brian Goldman: 18.2%CBC: 3.3%Anecdotal36.2%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 14.5%Dr. Brian Goldman: 2.4%CBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)14.5%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 49.3%Dr. Brian Goldman: 2.1%CBC: 0.1%Special Pleading49.3%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 1.4%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 1.8%CBC: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 59.4%Dr. Brian Goldman: 20.1%CBC: 4.8%Biased Writer Voice59.4%This article: 26.1%Dr. Brian Goldman: 15.9%CBC: 2.4%Indoctrination26.1%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. Brian Goldman: 5.5%CBC: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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