A Record Cyclospora Outbreak ⁠58%

By James P. Sutton⁠7% Evan Spear⁠7% Ross Anderson⁠7%

7/20/2026, 11:08:21 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Recency Bias, and Red Herring, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 49.1% saturation with 26 hits. Analysis detected 219 faulty-reasoning hits from 53 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠58% (8,581 of 20,444 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 58.00% of the article peer group.

A Record Cyclospora Outbreak 
Happy Monday! 
Exciting news for anyone with a black leather jacket in the closet: One just sold at Sotheby’s for $960,000. 
Plus: three U.S. troops are killed in the Iran war, Russia launches a major missile barrage on Kyiv, and one very expensive leather jacket. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 3.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.3%The Dispatch: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 35.8%James P. Sutton: 0.9%The Dispatch: 1.7%Availability Heuristic35.8%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 35.8%James P. Sutton: 2.0%The Dispatch: 4.8%Framing Effect35.8%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 1.5%The Dispatch: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 3.8%James P. Sutton: 0.8%The Dispatch: 1.6%Optimism Bias3.8%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 45.3%James P. Sutton: 2.1%The Dispatch: 5.1%Negativity Bias45.3%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 1.2%The Dispatch: 1.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 3.0%The Dispatch: 1.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 45.3%James P. Sutton: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.0%Recency Bias45.3%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.4%The Dispatch: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 6.7%The Dispatch: 3.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 2.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.5%The Dispatch: 5.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 45.3%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.1%Red Herring45.3%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 35.8%James P. Sutton: 1.1%The Dispatch: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion35.8%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 1.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 45.3%James P. Sutton: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.3%Composition/Division45.3%This article: 35.8%James P. Sutton: 0.5%The Dispatch: 1.1%Anecdotal35.8%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.4%The Dispatch: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.3%The Dispatch: 1.3%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.6%The Dispatch: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 49.1%James P. Sutton: 2.1%The Dispatch: 6.7%Biased Writer Voice49.1%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.8%The Dispatch: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James P. Sutton: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 35.8%James P. Sutton: 12.0%The Dispatch: 6.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…35.8%

53 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker36%attributed speech34writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageSotheby’s • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Sotheby’s

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words100% of attributed speech76% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Sotheby’s: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-76.5 ptsWriter: 76.5%Sotheby’s: 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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