A cocaine bust in Spain leads all the way to Wall Street 66%

By Rodrigo Orihuela81% Donal Griffin81%

7/15/2026, 8:38:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 59.8% saturation with 61 hits. Analysis detected 466 faulty-reasoning hits from 102 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.3% and a BS Rank of 66% (7,024 of 20,383 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 65.50% of the article peer group.

It was supposed to be a cargo of bananas from Latin America. 
What Spanish police found on the ship in the Mediterranean port of Algeciras instead were 13 tons of cocaine. 
The drug bust in the fall of 2024 became the biggest in Spain’s history at the time. 
The ensuing investigation has now revealed what authorities allege was a financial network used to launder money running all the way to the founders of a special-purpose acquisition company in Newport Beach, California, that raised $200 million from investors just last year. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 41.2%Rodrigo Orihuela: 10.3%The Japan Times: 3.5%Confirmation Bias41.2%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 4.2%The Japan Times: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 16.7%Rodrigo Orihuela: 14.5%The Japan Times: 4.7%Availability Heuristic16.7%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 52.9%Rodrigo Orihuela: 39.7%The Japan Times: 14.4%Framing Effect52.9%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 4.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 3.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 52.9%Rodrigo Orihuela: 20.8%The Japan Times: 11.5%Negativity Bias52.9%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 57.8%Rodrigo Orihuela: 14.5%The Japan Times: 2.2%Recency Bias57.8%This article: 11.8%Rodrigo Orihuela: 5.9%The Japan Times: 0.9%Primacy Effect11.8%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 59.8%Rodrigo Orihuela: 25.2%The Japan Times: 5.6%Appeal to Authority59.8%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.6%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 16.7%Rodrigo Orihuela: 4.2%The Japan Times: 4.5%Hasty Generalization16.7%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 41.2%Rodrigo Orihuela: 20.6%The Japan Times: 4.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)41.2%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 52.9%Rodrigo Orihuela: 13.2%The Japan Times: 3.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)52.9%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 4.5%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 52.9%Rodrigo Orihuela: 26.5%The Japan Times: 9.0%Biased Writer Voice52.9%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rodrigo Orihuela: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

102 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker19%attributed speech83writer words
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Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageSpanish police • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 42 words • 100.0% coverage
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Spanish police

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Biased Writer Voice-65.1 ptsWriter: 65.1%Spanish police: 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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