NBC News⁠35%

U.S. military intentionally allowing some Iranian projectiles through defenses ⁠74%

By NBCNews.com⁠21%

7/24/2026, 3:52:24 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Availability Heuristic, and False Dilemma, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 90.4% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 255 faulty-reasoning hits from 52 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66% and a BS Rank of ⁠74% (5,744 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.80% of the article peer group.

Two senior U.S. officials tell NBC News that military commanders are allowing some Iranian missiles and attack drones to get through air defenses amid an effort to preserve the Pentagon’s shrinking supply of missiles to shoot them down. 
NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 73.1%NBCNews.com: 2.7%NBC News: 2.1%Confirmation Bias73.1%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 73.1%NBCNews.com: 2.0%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic73.1%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.3%NBC News: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 90.4%NBCNews.com: 6.2%NBC News: 6.4%Framing Effect90.4%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.5%NBC News: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.1%NBC News: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 17.3%NBCNews.com: 5.8%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias17.3%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.4%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 2.7%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 4.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.0%NBC News: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.9%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.8%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.0%NBC News: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 73.1%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 1.2%False Dilemma73.1%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.3%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 2.6%NBC News: 3.2%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 1.6%NBC News: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.7%NBC News: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 73.1%NBCNews.com: 0.9%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof73.1%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 1.5%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 17.3%NBCNews.com: 0.6%NBC News: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)17.3%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 73.1%NBCNews.com: 1.2%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote73.1%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.2%NBC News: 1.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 3.2%NBC News: 4.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.3%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.4%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBCNews.com: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

52 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker9.6%attributed speech47writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 38 words • 100.0% coverageCourtney Kube • 5 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Courtney Kube

0%flagged-word coverage
5 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%42.5%85.0%Unattributed Quote-80.9 ptsWriter: 80.9%Courtney Kube: 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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