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By Jonah Goldberg32%

7/8/2026, 8:36:46 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Biased Writer Voice, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 20.5% saturation with 75 hits. Analysis detected 357 faulty-reasoning hits from 365 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 27.9% and a BS Rank of 11% (18,919 of 21,180 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 89.30% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 3.5%The Dispatch: 3.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.2%The Dispatch: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.6%The Dispatch: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.8%The Dispatch: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 4.9%Jonah Goldberg: 5.5%The Dispatch: 4.8%Framing Effect4.9%This article: 8.5%Jonah Goldberg: 1.0%The Dispatch: 0.8%Loss Aversion8.5%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.4%The Dispatch: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.8%Jonah Goldberg: 0.8%The Dispatch: 1.6%Optimism Bias0.8%This article: 1.4%Jonah Goldberg: 0.8%The Dispatch: 2.2%Pessimism Bias1.4%This article: 2.2%Jonah Goldberg: 3.2%The Dispatch: 5.3%Negativity Bias2.2%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.3%The Dispatch: 1.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.6%The Dispatch: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.3%The Dispatch: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 16.2%Jonah Goldberg: 3.6%The Dispatch: 1.9%Halo Effect16.2%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 5.5%Jonah Goldberg: 0.5%The Dispatch: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias5.5%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.2%The Dispatch: 1.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.0%The Dispatch: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 16.2%Jonah Goldberg: 4.6%The Dispatch: 3.7%Appeal to Authority16.2%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.4%The Dispatch: 2.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.0%The Dispatch: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.4%The Dispatch: 5.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 4.4%The Dispatch: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.2%The Dispatch: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 2.2%The Dispatch: 1.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.5%The Dispatch: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 2.2%Jonah Goldberg: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.1%Anecdotal2.2%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.6%The Dispatch: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.3%The Dispatch: 1.3%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 1.2%The Dispatch: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 12.3%Jonah Goldberg: 5.9%The Dispatch: 6.8%Biased Writer Voice12.3%This article: 7.1%Jonah Goldberg: 1.2%The Dispatch: 1.3%Indoctrination7.1%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.3%The Dispatch: 1.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jonah Goldberg: 0.2%The Dispatch: 1.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 20.5%Jonah Goldberg: 7.6%The Dispatch: 6.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…20.5%

365 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Selected voice

Jonah Goldberg

100%flagged-word coverage
59 attributed words100% of attributed speech57% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -24.5 ptsWriter: 24.5%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-14.7 ptsWriter: 14.7%Jonah Goldberg: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-8.5 ptsWriter: 8.5%Jonah Goldberg: 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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