Survey begins to determine remote island’s suitability for nuclear disposal site ⁠18%

By Eric Johnston⁠50%

5/21/2026, 7:16:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Pessimism Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 28.2% saturation with 31 hits. Analysis detected 91 faulty-reasoning hits from 110 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠18% (18,033 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.40% of the article peer group.

A survey to determine the suitability of a remote island in the Ogasawara Islands chain as a final disposal site for radioactive nuclear waste began Wednesday. 
The National Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) will carry out a review of the scientific literature on the geology of Minamitorishima, Japan’s easternmost island, located nearly 2,000 kilometers from Tokyo. 
The literature review is the first stage of an investigation into whether the site would be suitable for constructing an underground nuclear storage facility. 
The radioactive waste would need to be buried at least 300 meters underground for up to 100,000 years. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 2.1%The Japan Times: 3.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 2.3%The Japan Times: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 7.2%The Japan Times: 4.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.9%The Japan Times: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.5%The Japan Times: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 2.0%The Japan Times: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 21.8%Eric Johnston: 12.1%The Japan Times: 14.4%Framing Effect21.8%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 1.9%The Japan Times: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 1.7%The Japan Times: 1.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.5%The Japan Times: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 3.4%The Japan Times: 4.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 16.4%Eric Johnston: 3.1%The Japan Times: 3.3%Pessimism Bias16.4%This article: 16.4%Eric Johnston: 10.7%The Japan Times: 11.6%Negativity Bias16.4%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.4%The Japan Times: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 1.2%The Japan Times: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.6%The Japan Times: 1.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.6%The Japan Times: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.9%The Japan Times: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 1.9%The Japan Times: 2.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.6%The Japan Times: 0.9%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.5%The Japan Times: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 28.2%Eric Johnston: 3.5%The Japan Times: 5.5%Appeal to Authority28.2%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 3.5%The Japan Times: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.8%The Japan Times: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 2.9%The Japan Times: 4.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 3.1%The Japan Times: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.5%The Japan Times: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 5.3%The Japan Times: 4.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.5%The Japan Times: 1.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.8%The Japan Times: 3.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 2.2%The Japan Times: 4.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.6%The Japan Times: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 6.2%The Japan Times: 9.0%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 3.0%The Japan Times: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.6%The Japan Times: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Eric Johnston: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

110 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker28%attributed speech79writer words
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Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageNational Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverage
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31 attributed words100% of attributed speech53% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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